Rustic Pear Tart with Cream and Spice • The Prairie Homestead (2024)

Confession time:

If I have to choose between a sinfully rich chocolate dessert and a fruit dessert, I usually pick the chocolate.

Scandalous, I know…

It’s not that I don’t enjoy fruit desserts, because I do, (especially my homemade peach pie!), but chocolate will always hold a special place in my heart. Especially when it’s combined with some sort of cream. I mean, can you really compete with that?

However.

The tables may have turned, thanks to this knock-your-socks off pear tart recipe that I recently discovered. It came at the perfect time, considering I had just lugged home a very heavy box of Barlett pears from my latest Bountiful Baskets order.

I absolutely adore pears, and my favorite way to eat them is raw. However, I knew there was no way to eat ’em all before they started going bad, so I had to get creative. It took a concentrated day in the kitchen canning whole pears, making cinnamon pearsauce, and whipping up this tart, but I think I finally have a handle on this pear situation.

This mouth-watering recipe comes straight from the From Scratch cookbook, authored by one of my favorite homesteading bloggers, Shaye, from The Elliott Homestead. Shaye is a girl after my own heart, and I think it’s probably a good thing she lives in Washington and I live in Wyoming, otherwise, we would get into all sorts of trouble…

Rustic Pear Tart with Cream and Spices

You will need:

• 1 1/2 cups finely ground nuts (I used almond flour–although any fine nuts will work)
• 5 tablespoons softened butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoonssucanat or other granulated sweetener of your choice. (buy it here)
• 5-6 medium pears, peeled and sliced thin
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves (buy it here)
• 1/4 cup sucanat or natural sweetener of choice (honey will work)
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
• 1 cup cream
• 1 egg

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the nuts, butter, salt, and sucanat. Press into a 9″ pan.

(I used a 10″ cast iron skillet for my pear tart, because we all know that cast iron skillets make everything cooler. (I did have to add some extra almond flour/butter to my mix to cover the larger skillet))

Arrange the pears on top of the crust. When I say arrange, I really just mean plop them on top in some fashion. People with more patience than me often arrange the slices in a pretty design, but I’m more of a “get ‘er done” type of girl…

Sprinkle the pears with cinnamon, cloves, the remaining sweetener, and nutmeg.

In a small bowl, combine the cream and egg, then pour over the top of the whole thing. You might have to push the pears around a bit to make sure the cream covers them all. Like this—>

Bake for around 30 minutes, or until the pears are golden brown and the cream mixture is set. Serve warm or cold. I personally like it both ways.

And that, my friends, is how you turn the humble pear into a dessert that seriously rivals chocolate.

Now Let’s Do Some Math:

Let’s say you wanted to buy the amazing cookbook this recipe came from. And really, why wouldn’t you? My favorite cookbooks are ones with down-to-earth instructions and whole food ingredients I can easily source, and From Scratch passes both those requirements with flying colors.

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