For Christmas my sister and brother-in-law gave us a box of pears. Naturally, that meant only one thing. The tarts time had come!
I made up that perfect tart dough. It baked up so nicely and didn't even crack at all! The almond filling beat up nicely and then I started to peel and slice the pears.
The recipe called for three pears. Being the blind recipe follower I am, I dutifully peeled three pears. However, I think pears are smaller in France. Also, all pears are smaller then the Harry and David pears we had received. Those pears are huge; pears on steroids; amazonian pears even.
One pear filled the tart shell perfectly.
Now I had two naked pears slowing turning brown on my cutting board. What to do?
Sure I could have eaten one of those huge pears by myself. That would have still left me with one pear left. I didn't think it would survive overnight in the fridge.
Nothing to do but to make this other pear treat that had caught my eye.
Deb over on Smitten Kitchen had posted this pear bread recipe that looked really delicious. Actually, she posts a lot of delicious pear desserts. If you are in a pear mood there is this awesome pear and chocolate cake and recently we made the sublime vanilla roasted pears which were so delicious over vanilla ice cream.
The pear cake seemed just the thing for my rapidly browning pears. I grated them up and was also able to use the chopped pecans and almonds that never made it to top the failed toffee. Out of the oven came the tart and in went the cake.
The tart was our tasty dessert last night. The cake was a wonderful breakfast coffee cake for us this morning. The hardest part will be deciding which will be dessert tonight.
-- marcella
You didn't mention in your emails that you were baking such delicious treats and needed help eating them!
Well, get over here and help us eat all this! We need to finish it up before it's birthday cake time.