Healthy Baked Pears
Hello there, welcome to my Healthy Baked Pears recipe. Let me tell you the background to this post. If you are from Australia or New Zealand you may well be aware of a chocolate phenomenon known as Caramilk. Caramilk is a white chocolate with a caramel flavour. It comes out as a limited edition every so often.
And honestly, I've been watching food bloggers such as VJ Cooks, Anna from Just a Mum Who Bakes and Maria from Happy Mum Happy Child, have posts go viral that featured Caramilk chocolate.
I was not in anyway reimbursed for creating a recipe with Caramilk chocolate and I was not sent any Caramilk Chocolate or asked to post about it, I created this recipe as I can see Caramilk is really popular in NZ at the moment so I thought why not have a play with it!
The things is though, I'm a healthy kid food blogger, so the Caramilk chocolate doesn't really fit with the ethos of my website... or does it? May it does when it is served as part of these healthy baked pears.
These pears are baked with no added sugar and are yummy served with greek yoghurt and a little honey if needed. Obviously, you can totally make them without the Caramilk chocolate
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I got the idea of serving them with a little warmed melted chocolate from one of my favourite kid food websites Super Healthy Kids. They have a chocolate baked pear recipe done with chocolate chips, but the best part about their recipe, is not the recipe itself, but the discussion they have at the top of the post around how a little bit of something like chocolate... if it makes a healthy food delicious and appealing to a child is not necessarily a bad thing. You should read it, it's great.
Anywho, baking pears makes them soft and sweet and very kid friendly.
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Ingredients
- 6 fresh pears
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 Tablespoons honey 40 grams
- 2 Tablespoons coconut oil 25 grams
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoons ground ginger
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius or 360 F.
- Slice the pears in half then scoop out the core, to do this I used a melon baller.
- Arrange them in a shallow baking dish, cut side up.
- In a small mixing bowl or jug mix together the remaining ingredients, Mix the lemon juice, vanilla, coconut oil, maple syrup, and ground ginger together.
- Pour the seasoning mixture over the pear halves. . Leave the pears to sit for a few minutes.
- Flip the pears over so the cut side is down.
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes, remove from the oven, flip the pears over so the cut side is up and baste them with a little of the liquid from the bottom of the dish, return to the oven and bake for a further 10 minutes or until the pears are caramelised and tender.
- Serve with Greek yogurt and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup or your favourite vanilla ice cream.
- Enjoy!
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