Spiced pear crisp

A slice of maple oat crisp with vanilla ice cream.

A maple oat crisp topping an aromatic layer of pears, ginger and cardamom. Perfect both cold and warm, summer or winter.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword ginger pear, maple oat crisp, spiced pear crisp

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings people

Calories 411kcal

Author Eva | Electric Blue Food

Ingredients

For the pear layer

4 pears (450 g peeled and cored)
15 g fresh ginger peeled and grated
10 cardamom pods
40 g white sugar
1 tbsp potato starch

For the maple oat top

110 g rolled oats
90 g flour
130 g brown sugar
150 g butter melted
50 ml maple syrup or golden syrup
50 ml cream

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Peel, core and chop the pears. For one crisp you need to use 4 medium-large pears, or anything that will weigh 450 g after peeling and coring.
Extract the cardamom seeds for the pods and roughly crush with pestle and mortar.
Peel and grate the ginger. Add chopped pear, crushed cardamom, grated ginger, white sugar and potato starch to a bowl and toss.
In another bowl combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, cream, syrup and melted butter. Mix with a hand mixer at low speed until combined.
Spread the pears over the bottom of a pyrex or ceramic tart pan. Top with oat crisp mixture either by scooping it with a spoon or by crumbling it over with your hands, if the mixture has hardened too much to spread.
Bake in the preheated oven at 180°C (350°F) for 40 minutes, or until golden brown.

Notes

Allow 15 minutes for the crisp to set after taking it out of the oven. Afterward it can be consumed directly, or chilled and consumed later. You can microwave it to re-heat.

The nutrition information provided is made by an online calculator and meant to be used as a guideline only.

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