Spiced Caramel Pears

March 19, 2010 at 11:30 am · Filed under Puddings, Recipies

I had a jar of pear halves in juice in the fridge, a guest over and a serious craving for something sweet (I don’t generally keep biscuits or cakes in the house). After a little disconsolate poking around in the fridge and cupboards I remembered the lovely Apple Enchilada Dessert that Liz guest blogged over at $5 Dinners and this lush pudding was born. Nom.

Serves 4
Ingredients

  • 250g/1 Cup (Granulated) Sugar
  • 100ml/ 1/4 Cup Water
  • 1tsp Ground Ginger
  • 1tsp Ground Cinnamon
  • 1pinch Ground AllSpice
  • 100ml/ 1/4 Double/Heavy Cream
  • 16 Pear Halves in Juice, drained
  • 4 Soft Flour Tortillas

Method
Place the sugar and water in a strong based saucepan and bring up to the boil. Keep stirring (carefully! Hot sugar is a little like lava) and heating until the mixture turns a light caramel colour.


Add the spices (the mixture will foam up) and cream – stirring throroughly to ensure the sugar doesn’t seize on contact with the cold cream. If it does heat it gently to re-melt it.

Remove caramel from heat and add the pears.

Divide the pear caramel mixture between the tortillas and roll up. Serve with vanilla ice cream or pouring cream. Also delicious cold.

6 Comments »

  1. Choclette said,

    March 19, 2010 @ 3:11 pm

    What a fabulous desert – seems to be completely counterintuitive to serve the pears with bread, but I can see how it would work.

  2. Wenchie said,

    March 19, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    Hi Choclette,

    the wrap’s really there to provide a sop for the sweetness, it needs something else it’s overwhelmingly sweet, and the bread works really well to help tone it down and enable you to taste out all the flavours. I’ve also stirred through cornflakes to make a very loose (and pear-y) crispy cake and that worked really well with a little ice cream :)

  3. amystar said,

    March 20, 2010 @ 8:39 am

    I imagine this would be divine in a crepe as well… mmmmm….

  4. Wenchie said,

    March 20, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

    Mmh, they really, really would.

  5. Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said,

    March 23, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

    Interesting! I guess they would be like crepes! :D

  6. Wenchie said,

    March 24, 2010 @ 8:47 am

    @Lorraine, close, yes, although the tortillas have a slightly more neutral flavour. I’m very unsweet-toothed, so that suited me better (and meant I wasn’t making crepes) but a sweeter tooth might prefer them :)

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