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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