Recipe

Honey baked pears with whipped cream and ginger crumb

Simple yet impressive, this honey baked pears recipe is perfectly complemented with a golden ginger crumb and lush whipped cream. Serve for a delicious autumnal dessert

Feb 20, 2017 3:57am
By Bernadette Hogg
  • 50 mins cooking
  • Serves 8
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This recipe first appeared inFood magazineissue 86.
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Ingredients

  • 4 small-to-medium pears, halved and cored
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 25克黄油,立方
  • 1/2 vanilla pod, split
  • juice of 1 lemon, plus 2 strips of lemon zest
  • Tatua Dairy Whip Whipped Cream, to serve
Ginger crumb
  • 120 gram gingernut biscuits, roughly smashed
  • 2 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 30 gram hazelnuts, lightly toasted, skins removed and roughly chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Method

  • 1
    Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the pears in a ceramic baking dish in a single layer.
  • 2
    Place the honey, butter, vanilla pod, lemon juice and zest in a small pan over a medium-to-low heat, stirring until the butter has melted.
  • 3
    Brush two-thirds of the mixture generously overthe pears.
  • 4
    Bake the pears in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and baste with some of the remaining honey mixture. Do this several times during cooking until the pears have softened, this should take 30-40 minutes.
  • 5
    Meanwhile, for the ginger crumb, place all the ingredients in a food processor. Pulse until you have a rough crumb.
  • 6
    Once the pears have cooked, allow to cool slightly before serving with a swirl of Tatua Dairy Whip Whipped Cream and a good sprinkling of the ginger crumb. Serve immediately.

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