This fantastic, easy to make, pear crisp recipe is so sweet and tasty! As a bonus, it smells heavenly! The sweet taste of fall is on your tongue with this perfect recipe for those freshly harvested pears.

Pear Crisp Recipe

If you like easy-to-make crisp recipes, you will want to try this easy, fresh blackberry crisp recipe or perhaps this fabulous fresh strawberry rhubarb crisp recipe. Why do I mention “fresh”? Because fresh berries and rhubarb are used. You could certainly try frozen, but nothing beats fresh!!

You may be wondering:

What is the difference between a cobbler and a crisp?

Well, the difference between a cobbler and crisp is in the topping. A crisp is a baked fruit dessert with a crunchy topping such as nuts, granola, oats, or muesli. A cobbler is is a baked fruit dessert, but it has a dough topping – such as flour, bisquick, pie dough, or biscuits!

What toppings can be used for a crisp?

Most commonly used topping on a crisp dessert recipe are oats, granola, or nuts. In this wonderful pear fruit crisp recipe, I use muesli – simply fabulous!

Pear Crisp Recipe Notes:

● This recipe used Muesli, you can use granola or quick rolled oats as a substitution if you like.

● You can substitute Splenda for sugar.

I use a pastry cutter to cut-in butter with dough/flour to make the pebble consistency. You can use two butter knife and keep cutting the butter over and over and over again until you achieve the pebbles. Honestly? I used that method for 30+ years. The pastry cutter is much faster and easier, but the 2-butter-knives-method does work.

Pear Crisp Recipe Ingredients:

● 6 cups fresh Pears, cored, peeled and diced
● 2 TBSP Lemon Juice
● ½ cup Sugar
● 1 TBSP Cornstarch
● 1½ tsp Cinnamon, divided
● ½ cup Flour
● ½ cup Brown Sugar
● 4 TBSP cold Butter, diced
● ½ cup Muesli or Granola
● ½ cup Walnuts, chopped

Pear Crisp Recipe Mise en Place:

● Cutting Board
● Knife
● Peeler
● Measuring Spoons
● Measuring Cup
● 2-qt Baking Dish
● 1 Medium Bowl
● Spatula or Spoon
● Pastry Cutter
● Wire Rack

Pear Crisp Recipe Directions:

● Preheat oven to 375°.
● Combine 6 cups fresh pears (that is 6 cups after peeling, coring, and dicing) and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in a 2-quart baking dish; toss the pears to coat with the lemon juice.

● Combine ½ cup sugar, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a separate bowl.
● Pour sugar mixture over pears in baking dish, toss with fork to coat.
● Combine ½ cup flour, ½ teaspoon cinnamon and ½ cup of brown sugar in a separate bowl.

● Add 4 tablespoons of cold, diced butter to the brown sugar-flour mixture. Cut in butter until your mixture resembles pebbles.
● Add ½ cup muesli (or granola) and ½ cup of chopped walnuts to flour mixture, stir in.

● Sprinkle flour mixture evenly over pear mixture in baking dish.

● Bake at 375° for 40-50 minutes or until pears are tender and topping is golden brown.
● Cool for 20 minutes on a wire rack.

● Serve warm or cold.
● Refrigerate leftovers.

Yield: 8 servings

Pear Crisp Recipe

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Easy Pear Crisp Recipe. This fantastic, easy to make pear crisp recipe is so sweet and tasty! As a bonus, it smells heavenly! The sweet taste of fall is on your tongue with this perfect recipe for those freshly harvested pears.

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 6 cups fresh Pears, cored, peeled and diced
• 2 TBSP Lemon Juice
• ½ cup Sugar
• 1 TBSP Cornstarch
• 1½ tsp Cinnamon, divided
• ½ cup Flour
• ½ cup Brown Sugar
• 4 TBSP cold Butter, diced
• ½ cup Muesli or Granola
• ½ cup Walnuts, chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Combine 6 cups fresh pears (that is 6 cups after peeling, coring, and dicing) and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in a 2-quart baking dish; toss the pears to coat with the lemon juice.
3. Combine ½ cup sugar, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a separate bowl.
4. Pour sugar mixture over pears in baking dish, toss with fork to coat.
5. Combine ½ cup flour, ½ teaspoon cinnamon and ½ cup of brown sugar in a separate bowl.
6. Add 4 tablespoons of cold, diced butter to the brown sugar-flour mixture. Cut in butter until your mixture resembles pebbles.
7. Add ½ cup muesli (or granola) and ½ cup of chopped walnuts to flour mixture, stir in.
8. Sprinkle flour mixture evenly over pear mixture in baking dish.
9. Bake at 375° for 40-50 minutes or until pears are tender and topping is golden brown.
10. Cool for 20 minutes on a wire rack.
11. Serve warm or cold.
12. Refrigerate leftovers.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

8

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 345Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 55mgCarbohydrates: 57gFiber: 6gSugar: 37gProtein: 4g

Note: for exact nutritional information, consult your dietitian. All nutritional information provided is simply a guideline.

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