With all this warm weather we've been having, it's hard to feel festive and want to make weather appropriate drinks. I'd rather be drinking a margarita (with salt, please!) than eggnog and I'm sure I'm not the only one. That said, I figured it was worth a try. Keeping in the vein of my spiced wine, I decided to make baked pears! Guys. Guys. This is the simplest recipe, but if you're into sweet things, you're gonna fall in love.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Because it was just me, I only made enough for one serving, but normally I'd use two ripe pears. You're gonna take your pears and cut them in half, then use a spoon to scoop out the seeds toward the bottom center of the pear. Now, flip those pears and cut a liiiittle sliver off the backs, so they'll lay flat on your baking pan. I almost skipped this and they were sliding around. Not cute.
Line your baking pan with parchment paper (just for better clean up, you don't really have to do this if you don't want), and put your lil pear bbs on your pan. The recipe I roughly followed used legit measurements for the amount of honey (or agave if you're vegan), walnuts, and cinnamon in the recipe but I winged it because I like all those things and figured I'll like them in excess. If you're super anal, put 2 tsp of honey, 3 tbsp of walnuts, and 2 tsp of cinnamon on your pears. Basically just cover 'em with the ingredients.
Now, cook those bad boys for 25 minutes. You can either leave them as is and eat them once they're done, or do like I did and make a sweet ricotta sauce to top them with. If you choose the latter, combine 1 cup ricotta, 0.25 tsp cinnamon, and 1.5 tsp splenda in a blender and blend till smooth. I roughly used the ricotta sauce recipe from here, but with sugar instead of splenda. If you decide against splenda because you don't have it in your house (like I didn't), know that you'll need more sugar than that recipe calls for to really sweeten up the sauce.
Look at that!
Recipe Recap:
Pears:
2 pears
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp honey (or agave)
3 tbsp walnuts
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Half pears, scoop seeds, cut sliver off back & place on a lined baking pan.
3. Fill with walnuts, then cover with cinnamon & honey/agave.
4. Cook for 25 minutes.
Ricotta Sauce:
1 C fat free ricotta cheese
1.5 tsp splenda/sugar
.25 tsp cinnamon
1. Combine all ingredients in blender & blend. Adjust sugar for taste if needed.
2. Pour over peaches.
Let me know if you try these! If you don't fall in love I'll assume you made em wrong.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Because it was just me, I only made enough for one serving, but normally I'd use two ripe pears. You're gonna take your pears and cut them in half, then use a spoon to scoop out the seeds toward the bottom center of the pear. Now, flip those pears and cut a liiiittle sliver off the backs, so they'll lay flat on your baking pan. I almost skipped this and they were sliding around. Not cute.
Line your baking pan with parchment paper (just for better clean up, you don't really have to do this if you don't want), and put your lil pear bbs on your pan. The recipe I roughly followed used legit measurements for the amount of honey (or agave if you're vegan), walnuts, and cinnamon in the recipe but I winged it because I like all those things and figured I'll like them in excess. If you're super anal, put 2 tsp of honey, 3 tbsp of walnuts, and 2 tsp of cinnamon on your pears. Basically just cover 'em with the ingredients.
Now, cook those bad boys for 25 minutes. You can either leave them as is and eat them once they're done, or do like I did and make a sweet ricotta sauce to top them with. If you choose the latter, combine 1 cup ricotta, 0.25 tsp cinnamon, and 1.5 tsp splenda in a blender and blend till smooth. I roughly used the ricotta sauce recipe from here, but with sugar instead of splenda. If you decide against splenda because you don't have it in your house (like I didn't), know that you'll need more sugar than that recipe calls for to really sweeten up the sauce.
Look at that!
Recipe Recap:
Pears:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Half pears, scoop seeds, cut sliver off back & place on a lined baking pan.
3. Fill with walnuts, then cover with cinnamon & honey/agave.
4. Cook for 25 minutes.
Ricotta Sauce:
1. Combine all ingredients in blender & blend. Adjust sugar for taste if needed.
2. Pour over peaches.
Let me know if you try these! If you don't fall in love I'll assume you made em wrong.
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