Cranberry Pear Tart With Gingerbread Crust Recipe

Posted by
Rate It!
Cranberry Pear Tart With Gingerbread Crust
Add your photo!
Ingredients
22
Count
Nutrition
382
Calories
Total time
31
Minutes
Comments Print recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 4 inches cinnamon sticks
  • 4 large firm ripe pears , halved lengthwise, peeled, cored and put into a bowl of ice water acidulated with
  • 1/2 lemon , juice of
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 tbsp firmly packed brown sugar
  • 2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

  1. Make pear mixture: In a saucepan, combine cranberry juice, sugar, cinnamon stick and lemon juice.
  2. Bring to boil and add pears.
  3. Heat until it just comes to simmer and simmer gently for 10-15 minutes, or until the pears are just tender.
  4. Remove from heat, stir in cranberries and let mixture cool.
  5. Chill, covered, for at least 8 hours.
  6. (may be made 2 days in advance) Crust: Blend together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and salt.
  7. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
  8. In a small bowl, stir together egg yolk and the molasses.
  9. Add to flour mixture and mix until combined well but still crumbly.
  10. Turn out onto 10 inch tart pan with removable rim and press onto bottom and up sides of pan.
  11. Chill crust for 30 minutes.
  12. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  13. Prick crust all over with fork, line with foil, fill with pie weights or dry beans, and bake in lower third of oven for 15 minutes.
  14. Remove foil and pie weights and bake crust a further 10 minutes.
  15. Let cool.
  16. Transfer poached pears and half the cranberries with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, discard cinnamon, and reserve syrup with remaining cranberries.
  17. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, sugar, sour cream, milk, vanilla, zest and a pinch of salt.
  18. Stir in the drained cranberries.
  19. Preheat oven to 325°F.
  20. Spoon half of custard into the crust.
  21. Slice 4 of the pear halves crosswise on the diagonal, arrange decoratively over the custard alternately with the unsliced pear halves, and spoon remaining custard around pears.
  22. Bake tart in middle of oven for 50-55 minutes or until custard is just set.
  23. Remove rim of pan and let cool.
  24. (may be made up to 8 hours in advance, cooled completely and chilled) Boil reserved syrup until reduced to 1 cup and is jelly-like in consistency and transfer cranberries with slotted spoon to a plate to cool.
  25. Brush pears with some of cranberry glaze and arrange cranberries around edge of tart.
  26. Serve warm or chilled.
Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 382.12 Kcal (1600 kJ)
Calories from fat 114.38 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12.71g 20%
Cholesterol 102.95mg 34%
Sodium 163.01mg 7%
Potassium 286.42mg 6%
Total Carbs 64.01g 21%
Sugars 40.2g 161%
Dietary Fiber 4.06g 16%
Protein 5.31g 11%
Vitamin C 49.4mg 82%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 4%
Iron 1mg 5%
Calcium 72.1mg 7%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 131.84 Kcal (552 kJ)
Calories from fat 39.47 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 4.39g 20%
Cholesterol 35.52mg 34%
Sodium 56.24mg 7%
Potassium 98.82mg 6%
Total Carbs 22.08g 21%
Sugars 13.87g 161%
Dietary Fiber 1.4g 16%
Protein 1.83g 11%
Vitamin C 17mg 82%
Iron 0.3mg 5%
Calcium 24.9mg 7%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
Search recipes
by ingredients
Search
Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe
Analyze

Try this similar recipes

View More

Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 7.9
    Points
  • 10
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Also Try

Share Recipe

Recipes▼
Search
Get Your Recipe of Health!
Follow RecipeOfHealth on Facebook!
Scroll to top