Cinnamon Almond Shortbread Pear Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) and place a rack in the center of the oven. Spray a 10-inch springform pan with cooking spray.
• Place flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor; pulse to blend together. Add butter and pulse until dough just begins to come together.
• Pat the dough onto the bottom and 1 inch up the sides of the prepared pan. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate while making the filling.
• Process cream cheese in the food processor until smooth. Add sugar and mix well. Blend in egg and vanilla extract until smooth. Spread filling over the chilled crust. Arrange pear halves on top.
• Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl; sprinkle over pears.
• Bake tart in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) and bake until crust is browned and filling is almost set, 25 to 30 minutes more.
• Cool tart for about 20 minutes on a wire rack. Run a sharp, thin knife around the edges to remove the springform ring. Cool to room temperature before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 150°C/300oF/Mark2.
• Line oven trays with baking parchment and put the tray in the oven.
• In a large bowl sifted flour, cinnamon and almond meal. Mix well. Set aside.
• In another bowl beat butter, caster sugar and vanilla essence until light and creamy.
• Combine flour mixture and butter mixture, (may need to use hands) to form a dough.
• Roll the mixture into a large plum size or walnut sized balls and then shape each ball into a pear. (The more smaller you make them the more cloves you would need).
• Place the base of the clove (star shape end) on the top of the pear to the form the core.
• Place the pears on hot tray and bake in the oven for 12 minutes or until pale golden. (Please note if you are making them plum size baked them for 12 minutes or until pale golden, but if you are making walnut size it would be quicker).
• Remove tray and allow pears to stand on trays for 10 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool.
• Dust lightly with icing sugar. Store.
• Note: Please let everyone who is eating the shortbread pear knows it's a real clove on the top because they may want to remove it before eating.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• 2.Pears: Cut pears in half and then into thin slices. Put them in a large bowl and toss with the brown sugar, lemon juice and zest to blend, set aside.
• 3. Topping: Combine flour, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Add the butter and almonds and break them up with your fingers integrating the dry ingredients with the butter and nuts.
• 4. Grease the bottom and sides of a shallow square baking dish (8 square inches) with the remaining tablespoon of butter. Layer the pears in the dish and top evenly with the nut topping. Place the dish in the center of the oven and bake until the pears are tender when pierced with the tip of a knife. The topping should be golden brown as well, about 40-45 minutes. Set aside to cool a few minutes before serving.

Steps:

• pie crust
• Process in food processor; add egg yolk last.
• pat into pie shell was oily
• Cream sugar and butter; add eggs.( i just used processor it was already dirty ).
• Add golden syrup with cream or 1/2 and 1/2 and almond extract.
• Drain pears; place in bottom of pie pan.
• pour egg mixture over pears.
• Top with almond flakes.
• Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 60 minutes until set. now mine overran the pan so put something under.