Baked Pears with Cinnamon Almond Streusel and Vanilla Quark
Warm pear halves with crunchy cinnamon almond crumble and creamy vanilla quark make a warming autumn and winter dessert. It comes together with just a few ingredients and can be prepared ahead of time.
By yumbelo · 4 servings · 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 pc Pears, ripe but firm
- 60 g Butter, cold
- 60 g Spelt flour
- 50 g brown sugar
- 40 g Almonds, sliced
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 pinch Salt
- 500 g Low-fat quark
- 1 pack Vanilla sugar
- 200 ml Whipping cream
- 2 tbsp Honey
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C, top and bottom heat.
- Wash the pears, halve them, remove the cores with a spoon and place the halves cut side up in a baking dish.
- Work the butter cut into pieces, spelt flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and sliced almonds together with your fingers into a crumbly streusel.
- Spread the streusel evenly over the pear halves and bake the dish in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes, until the pears are soft and the streusel is golden brown.
- While the pears are baking, whip the cream until stiff. Stir the quark smooth with the vanilla sugar and honey and fold in the whipped cream.
- Serve the warm pears with the vanilla quark.