This elegant and easy recipe for pears in vanilla cream sauce bakes up in no time for an elegant, creamy, dreamy dessert full of poached pear flavor. Baked pears never tasted so good!
I am a great believer that every once in a while, you should throw your family a total curve ball at dinner time. As in, something that they would never in their wildest dreams have expected to find on their supper plate.
In our house, that means, yes, dessert for dinner. And while sometimes I throw a complete curve ball with something chocolate, I usually go for something that has a nice amount of fruit in it.
So one night not so long ago, I served up a warm, creamy, cinnamon-sugary pears in vanilla cream sauce.
It’s an easy and elegant dessert that would be the perfect ending to a special occasion dinner party, but when you serve it up on a Tuesday night for supper? It might taste even better!
Here’s what happens: peel a couple of ripe pears and cut them in half length-wise. Scoop out the core and lay them face down in a buttered baking dish. Sprinkle them with butter and sugar…
…and bake them until the are nice and soft. Then pour a mixture of heavy cream and vanilla on top and bake for a few minutes more. Sprinkle them with cinnamon sugar, let them cool for another 15 minutes…and that’s all there is too it!
Creamy, sweet pear deliciousness. So pull this recipe out for your next fabulous dinner party…or even better, on an ordinary Tuesday night!
PrintPears in Vanilla Cream Sauce
This elegant and easy recipe for pears in vanilla cream sauce bakes up in no time for an elegant, creamy, dreamy dessert.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 2 pears
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons soft butter
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450.
- Peel pears and cut them in half length-wise. Scoop out the core and place in a buttered baking pan, cut side down. Sprinkle with sugar and dot with butter.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Mix cream and vanilla together and bake for 5 minutes more.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, cool for 15 minutes and serve warm.
Keywords: pears in vanilla cream sauce, pear dessert recipe, poached pears, baked pears, pear recipe, gluten-free pears in vanilla cream sauce recipe
Leslie Anne says
Exactly a pear and cream recipe I was looking for. I wanted a poached pear recipe but all of them were not to my liking and took some times ridiculous long times steaming on the stove top. This is exactly what I was searching for. And there is no long wait period. You can still doll it up if you like with other ingredients like a dash of wine or citrus of choice but I am allergic to cinnamon but know how to work around that. This is so simple and I recieved a box of 6 pears for my BD from David and what Harry or those guys:)) I unwrapped the gold foiled one. Want to share with hubby just the two of us. And had hoped they would be ready on my BD tomorrow but not quite ripe enough yet. Not sure how long these will keep in the fridge like traditional poached pears which are 4-12 days. Probably depends on the amount of citrus and wine if used. I intend to enjoy a few pears just eating them but had hoped to prepare 2-4 this way too. Oh my maybe they’ll be ready by Feb 14….that’s another 3 days out but something special for my Valentine who’s now 84 years old and we’ll have just passed our 50th anniversary on my BD too. And I bought some beautiful freeze dried strawberries covered in hard shelled dark chocolate that would go perfectly with this style of poached pears too. Yummy. Thanks for the recipe.
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Hi Leslie Anne and thank you so much for writing! I’m delighted that you like the sound of this pear recipe, and Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary and Happy Valentine’s Day – sounds like you have a wonderful Valentine dinner planned out for that special Valentine of yours! :)
Chris says
I tried this recipe with walnuts but the vanilla cream sauce came out brown. Is that expected? I was hoping for more of a while sauce.
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Hi Chris! The sauce does take on a light golden brown color, like the sauce in the picture in the post. If it is a deep brown that might mean it cooked a bit too long – but it should still taste good! Hope this helps?
easy video recipes says
One of my absolute favorites. It’s such an elegant dish.
Joanne says
I approve of this dessert for dinner mentality. ANd, I mean, there was fruit in the dish so it’s totally acceptable!
I am seriously considering making dessert for dinner a weekly thing. We all need to get more fruit in our lives, after all!
Mir says
You are hilarious! Love those pics of you stomach-down in the grass. But hey, you gotta get the shot somehow.
These look really good! And usually I’m not a fruit for dessert person, but in this case? Yeah!
Yep, we gotta do what we gotta do to get the shot! :) And try it for actual dinner!
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
Dinner, dessert, I’d take these pears any way I could get them! They look PERFECT!
Thanks Trish! I’m thinking breakfast might be totally reasonable, too. LOVE your site, btw!
Laura @ Laura's Culinary Adventures says
What an elegent desert!
Thank you so much! It made for a pretty fun dinner, too. :)
Maura Cooper says
I *know* you’re a photographer among other things but I swear when I saw that I thought it was a painting! High praise in case ya didn’t know.
Maura! Thanks for those sweet words. :)