Baked pears make the perfect fall dessert! These are roasted in wine with butter and vanilla and either drizzled with honey or brown sugar.
An easy and elegant dessert that everyone loves!
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Pear Desserts
Every fall, or anytime pears are on sale, I make this simple roasted pears. I've made it for so long that I have no idea where I originally found the recipe.
We always keep a small bottle of dessert wine in the fridge. When you reduce it a bit, it makes a lovely syrupy sauce all on it's own. Here in this recipe it makes a flavorful sweet glaze for these baked pears.
You can use this same basic recipe with any fruit that you might like to roast. I think apples would be lovely, even peaches.
Ingredients
- Pears - use whatever is on sale and are nice and ripe. Save some and make this Easy Pear Crisp too!
- Dessert Wine - If you don't have a dessert wine, any dry white wine will work, or even better use one of your pears to make this ready in 24 hours, Spiced Pear Liqueur. If you don't want to use alcohol, you can substitute a fruit juice, like white grape juice.
- Butter - unsalted.
- Vanilla bean - or ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- Honey or Brown Sugar - Brown sugar provides a deeper flavor and a darker color, honey is lighter in flavor.
Instructions.
You're going to love how easy it is to make this dessert. No crusts, no muss, just lovely simple pears.
While your oven is preheating, you peel and core four pears. There are two ways that I like to core pears, one using an apple corer which creates a long tunnel in the pear, like I've done with these pears. A little bit more elegant, I think, is using a melon baller to scoop out the core.
Next you grease the bottom of a roasting pan with butter and then dot the rest of the butter on the pears.
Then you drizzle with honey or sprinkle with brown sugar and pour a sweet dessert wine (or white grape juice) into the pan.
Let roast and about halfway through spoon some of the sauce over the top and continue roasting. At the halfway point you can also turn them over if you want the tops to get a little more browned.
You can serve these with ice cream or just a drizzle of regular cream. Sometimes I go even a little more decadent and drizzle some chocolate or caramel sauce on top to serve.
Recipe.
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Roasted Pears with Wine and Honey
Ingredients
- 4 pears peeled and cored
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup sweet dessert wine
- 2 tablespoons honey for drizzling
- cream or ice cream for serving
- ½ vanilla bean
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Grease bottom of small roasting pan with butter. Cut remaining butter up into little bits. Place pears cut side down into dish and dot with the remaining butter. Drizzle a little of the honey over each pear. Pour the wine in the dish.
- Add the vanilla bean or stir in the vanilla extract.
- Roast for about 30 minutes and then baste with the juice. Continue roasting for another 30 minutes.
- Serve with ice cream or cream.
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This post was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for 2021.
So, you had me at wine. I love poached pears, but I've only ever seen it done with red wine and cinnamon sticks -- this is a really unique method.
I love poached pears too, but I really love the caramelizing you get from roasting!
I have dessert wine on hand too but I hadn't thought to keep it in the fridge till now! The combination of the pears and wine is perfect and rather decadent, great recipe!!
It keeps longer in the fridge!
I love pears at this time of year, they make a fantastic dessert that is not too sweet. Super to see dessert wine get a mention too, it is often overlooked by people, I make a delicious poached pear dish with Tokaj dessert wine.
Oh, is your poached pear recipe on your blog?
This dessert looks so perfect with all those ingredients! I'd love to make one, too!
You would love it!
This recipe is such a great example of simple elegance! I love the wine and honey combination with fruit, and can easily see this being a wonderful dessert after a nice dinner party! Just debating whether I'd go ahead and drizzle some chocolate on top! 😉
Go for the chocolate!
This dessert sounds so simple, yet so elegant. Definitely a must try!
It is!
Love this roasted pears with wine and honey. Thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop. pinning
the pears sound delicious
These pears would be good as the filling for a pie, too!
Those look good.
I like them with a good quality yoghurt
Me too!
I love roasted pears, this sounds delicious, perfect for fall! Thanks for sharing at What'd You Do This Weekend?!
What a lovely way to use dessert wine, Pam! Your Roasted Pears with Wine and Honey look so delicious - and they are perfect for this time of year as well. Thank you for sharing them with us at Hearth and Soul.
What a delightful and simple recipe! I will be giving this a try while pears are still in season.
These sound great! I don't know that I'd even need ice cream with them, but it wouldn't hurt.