7 dried pear dessert Recipes

dried fruit compote with sambuca, this quick compote is a good choice for a winter dinner when you have little time to cook but want to make an impression. you can prepare it ahead (it s better made ahead), then spoon it over store-bought ice cream to create an original and memorable dessert. i also like it with blue cheese at the end of a meal, especially if there s a dessert wine on the table., dried peaches or nectarines, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried pears , cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips or quartered, golden raisins, dried cherries, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon zest strips, fresh lemon juice, sambuca or other anise liqueur

sugar, muscat de beaune de venise, or other sweet , white dessert white, such as white port or sauternes, fresh raspberries, heavy cream, melted bittersweet chocolate, dried pears , recipe follows, sugar, water, fresh lemon juice, ground cardamom, ripe, firm pears, stems removed

pear halves in natural juice, drained, dried apricots, whole, seedless grapes, halved (raisins are a good subsitute), almonds, slivered & toasted, candied ginger , slivered, amaretto, marshmallow creme, water

sugar, warm water (110 -115 degrees ), dry yeast, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, salt, light oil, mascarpone cheese, honey, pears , sliced thinly into discs, seeds removed, mint, olive oil

essencia (or other sweet dessert wine), fresh pink grapefruit juice (from about 6 grapefruits), sugar, light corn syrup, grenadine syrup, grated pink grapefruit peel, fresh or frozen cranberries, water, tawny port, sugar, ripe pears, peeled, quartered, cored, gewurztraminer or other dry white wine, sugar, light corn syrup, fresh mint leaves