Wrapped Pears With Vanilla Bean Sauce
Wrapped Pears With Vanilla Bean Sauce
Impressive and delicious, this is the perfect recipe to make your guests feel special. The puff pastry, pears, and vanilla cream sauce complement each other to give layers of flavor to this mouthwatering dessert. Recipe courtesy of Pepperidge Farm.
Servings
4
Ingredients
- 3 cup water
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ vanilla bean, split
- 4 bartlett or bosc pears, cored and peeled
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ 17.3-ounce package puff pastry, such as pepperidge farm (1 sheet), thawed
- 1 cup fresh raspberries
Directions
- Heat the water, sugar, and vanilla bean in a 2-quart saucepan over low heat until the sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally.
- Add the pears to the saucepan and cook for 10 minutes or until the pears are tender, turning occasionally. Remove the pears from the saucepan. Cover and refrigerate until the pears are cold, 1 hour. Leave the sugar mixture in the saucepan.
- Stir the cream into the saucepan. Cook over low heat until the mixture is reduced to about ¾ cup, stirring often, 20 minutes. Remove the vanilla bean and scrape the seeds into the saucepan. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Unfold the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Cut the pastry sheet crosswise into 8¾-inch wide strips. Brush the strips with water and sprinkle with additional sugar.
- Press the ends of 2 pastry strips together. Starting at the top, wind 1 pastry strip around 1 pear, slightly overlapping the edges of the pastry and tucking the end under the pear. Repeat with the remaining pears and pastry strips. Place the wrapped pears onto a baking sheet. Loosely cover the wrapped pears with aluminum foil.
- Bake until the pastries are golden brown, 25 minutes. Spoon the vanilla sauce onto 4 plates. Top each with 1 pear and garnish with the raspberries.