Baked Pears with Honey, Cornflakes and Almonds
Lalkila Kitchen · Vegetarian · Desserts · Western influenced
Halved pears become a warm dessert under a small cornflake-and-almond topping. The fruit starts baking before the crunch is added, so it can soften without requiring the flakes to spend the whole time in the oven. Choose ripe pears that still hold together when cut.
Ingredients
- 4 ripe pears
- 20 g butter, divided
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tbsp honey
- 50 g cornflakes
- 25 g toasted flaked almonds
Method
- Heat oven to 200°C, or 180°C fan. Halve and core pears; put cut-side up in a shallow baking dish. Dot with half the butter and sprinkle with spice.
- Bake until beginning to soften. Melt remaining butter with honey and toss with cornflakes and almonds.
- Spoon topping over pears. Return to oven until fruit is tender and flakes golden. Let cool slightly before serving warm.
Cooking notes
Scoop out the seeds and fibrous centre with a teaspoon. Check the topping while it bakes because already-toasted almonds can darken quickly. The butter measure is an editorial choice replacing an unspecified knob, not a measured conversion of it. This version is served on its own, so ice cream and other garnishes are absent from both list and illustration.
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Source and adaptation
Adapted from the Good Food team’s Honey nut crunch pears. Original recipe.
Specified 20 g butter as a Lalkila adaptation, divided equally between fruit and topping. Omitted the optional ice-cream accompaniment and did not retain guaranteed baking times.
This is an editorial adaptation, not kitchen-tested by Lalkila. FoodSafety.gov cooking temperatures and safe food handling provide the safety references. The featured image is a generated illustration of this recipe.