Looking for a homemade dessert featuring fall ingredients? Then try these pear tartlets that are baked to perfection.
Individual Pear Tartlets
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 15 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (from 17.3-oz package), thawed
- 6 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 5 to 6 Bosc pears (about 3 1/2 lb), peeled, halved lengthwise and cut crosswise into 1/8-inch slices
- 12 wooden skewers, soaked
- Sweetened whipped cream, if desired
- Freshly grated nutmeg, if desired

Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper. On work surface sprinkled with 3 tablespoons flour, roll puff pastry to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into 6 (4-inch) rounds. Cut additional shapes, such as leaves or stars, from scraps. Place rounds on 1 cookie sheet and shapes on second cookie sheet. Refrigerate 10 minutes. Bake rounds 7 minutes; cool. (Do not prebake additional shapes.)
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Step2In large bowl, mix brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, melted butter and lemon juice. Gently stir in pear slices.
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Step3Arrange pear slices in concentric circles on prebaked rounds, stacking pears about 2 inches high; insert 2 skewers in top of each tart to secure pears. Drizzle with any remaining sugar mixture from bowl.
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Step4Bake tarts and shapes 15 minutes or until shapes are puffed and golden brown. Remove shapes to cooling rack. Bake tarts 10 minutes longer or until golden brown and slightly caramelized.
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Step5To serve, place tarts on dessert plates. Garnish with baked pastry shapes, sweetened whipped cream and nutmeg.
Nutrition
430
Calories
19g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
63g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 430
- Total Fat
- 19g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 8g
- 0%
- Sodium
- 270mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 63g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 8g
- 0%
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 1 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 3 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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