Baked Pears
These Baked Pears are so delicious. This recipe is the perfect way to help slightly dodgy pears live their best life! Your family will love this warm fruity dessert.
Why This Recipe Works
- A super simple dessert
- Uses up pears, even those that are less than perfect.
- A fruit based dessert that tastes so much more decadent than it actually is!
- Dairy free, gluten-free and refined sugar free.
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Ingredient Notes and Substitutes
- Pears: This recipe will also work with apples. I have made this recipe with many different types of pears including: Packham pear, Anjou pears, Barrett and Beurre Bosc pears.
- Honey: This can be substituted for maple syrup, coconut sugar or brown sugar..
- Coconut oil: This can be substituted for butter.
- Ground ginger: This recipe will work without the ginger, but ginger and pear is such a delicious flavor combination. You could use other spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg instead.
Baked Pears Step-By-Step
Below are illustrated step-by-step instructions to make my Baked Pears recipe, if you prefer just the written instructions then head straight to the printable recipe card below.
Step one: 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.
Step two: Arrange them in a shallow baking dish, cut side up.
Step three: 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.
Step four: Pour the seasoning mixture over the pear halves. . Leave the pears to sit for a few minutes.
Step five: Flip the pears over so the cut side is down.
Step six: 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.
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Step seven: Serve with Greek yogurt and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup or your favourite vanilla ice cream.
Step eight: Enjoy!
Tips & FAQs
Here is how you can make these Baked Pears perfectly every time!
- This recipe is delicious with walnuts or pecans, I add them into the bottom of the baking pan half way through the baking time. This means they bake in the sticky sweet goodness and become candies walnuts!
- Baked Pears are delicious served with yogurt or ice cream.
- These pears are fantastic for breakfast with pancakes, or as a topping for porridge, oatmeal or overnight oats.
- Left over pears can be diced and used in my pear muffin recipe or in a ginger pear parfait.
- Baking pears will turn even hard unsweet pears into the most delectable dessert.
- Sprinkle your baked pears with an apple crumble topping for another way of serving them!
There is no need to peel pears before making baked pears, in fact the peel helps the pear halved hold their shape throughout the baking process.
Baked pear recipes are very forgiving, even hard unsweet pears are perfect for baking, They will soften and become their natural sweetness will be enhanced during the baking process.
How To Make This Recipe Suitable For Baby-Led-Weaning
Baked pears can be perfect for baby led weaning
- Be sure to cook them until very soft, aim for a finger squashable texture.
- If you are cooking this baked pear recipe for a baby under one year of age substitute the honey for maple syrup.
Baked Pears
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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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Notes
- This recipe is delicious with walnuts or pecans, I add them into the bottom of the baking pan half way through the baking time. This means they bake in the sticky sweet goodness and become candies walnuts!
- Baked Pears are delicious served with yogurt or ice cream.
- These pears are fantastic for breakfast with pancakes, or as a topping for porridge, oatmeal or overnight oats.
- Left over pears can be diced and used in my pear muffin recipe or in a ginger pear parfait.
- Baking pears will turn even hard unsweet pears into the most delectable dessert.
- Sprinkle your baked pears with an apple crumble topping for another way of serving them!
- Pears: This recipe will also work with apples. I have made this recipe with many different types of pears including: Packham pear, Anjou pears, Barrett and Beurre Bosc pears.
- Honey: This can be substituted for maple syrup, coconut sugar or brown sugar..
- Coconut oil: This can be substituted for butter.
- Ground ginger: This recipe will work without the ginger, but ginger and pear is such a delicious flavor combination. You could use other spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg instead.
Baby Led Weaning Tips
- Be sure to cook them until very soft, aim for a finger squashable texture.
- If you are cooking this baked pear recipe for a baby under one year of age substitute the honey for maple syrup.
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