Maple Baked Pears

We were recently invited to a community potluck.  The potluck had been rescheduled due to weather and we were really looking forward to meeting all our near and not so near neighbors.  I was not sure what to make and bring and since I had been doing so much baking with pears – I decided why not another pear dish!  I have so many cookbooks, I decided to look up pears in several of them and finally settled on a recipe I found in my The Whole Foods Market Cookbook.

This recipe is super fast to put together and your mouth will be watering before you take it our of the oven – that is how good the smell is!

Maple Baked Pears with Rolled Oat Crust

Baked pears served

Ingredients

4 – 6 medium sized pears (you can substitute apples)
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 stick + 2 Tbl butter, melted

1 cups rolled oats (not quick)
1/2 cup flour
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. Cut the unpeeled pears in half, remove the seeds and stems.  Cut the pears into 1/2″ thick slices and place in a large bowl.

3. Add the lemon juice to the pears and toss.

Baked pears cut

4. Melt the butter.

5. Layer the pear slices into a 9×12 baking dish.

6. Measure the 1/2 cup maple syrup into a 1 cup glass measuring cup and add 2 Tbl of the melted butter – mix – it will become very thick.  Pour over the layered pears.

Baked pears layered

7. In a medium sized glass mixing bowl combine the oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and the rest of the butter – mix with a fork until crumbly.

Baked pears topping

8. Sprinkle the oat mixture over the layered pears and bake uncovered for 45 minutes.

Baked pears ready for the oven

This is wonderful served warm, but no complaints served cold either!

Baked pears out of oven

When this came out of the oven we waited a few minutes and then left to go to the potluck.  We drove there and no other cars were there, we went to the door and knocked – no answer!  It started at 2pm and it was now 2:30 – where was everyone?!  The smell in the car was torture – our mouths were watering in anticipation of tasting this baked goodness!  We waited a few more minutes and decided we would go into town and run our errands – with the dessert!  When we got to the grocery we saw our neighbors truck we searched for them to ask had the potluck been cancelled or postponed again – but we could never find them.  Back into the car and the smell – OMG!!! One more errand to go, we couldn’t take the torture and when we got home, before we even ate a late lunch – we had our dessert – DELICIOUS!  We never did find out what happened to the scheduled potluck.

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3 Responses to Maple Baked Pears

  1. Candace says:

    What a delicious looking dessert. Made me think that you “might could” place all ingredients in a crock pot on low and have delicious ‘oatmeal’ breakfasts. Maybe a bit less sweetening. : ) So the potluck – organization is the corner stone – hmm.

  2. virginia says:

    That looks great – I’ll try it. Picked a big bag of pears at my neighbors. So what ever happened to the pot luck ? Did you find out ?
    Va.

  3. Jo says:

    That looks so delicious….our pears are long gone but we have apples galore. I would guess I should peel the apples!

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