Hello everyone! I just got back from vacation in Asia, where I basically ate non stop. However, this post isn’t about that haha. This is a recipe for a pear tart I made recently for people at work. There was a recent stretch where I was making a dessert a week for my colleagues, but that has stopped for now due to mounting expenses haha. I got the recipe from here and followed it pretty closely. The only thing that differed was how I laid out and designed my pears. This was my first try and overall it was a huge success!

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup  flour
• 1/3 cup finely chopped walnuts
• 1 package (8 oz) reduced-fat cream cheese
• 1/4 cup plus 1 tsp sugar, divided
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 Red pears, thinly sliced
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 425º
• In a bowl, beat butter, sugar, and cinnamon together until crumbly.
• Beat in flour and walnuts into the mixture
• Press into 9″ tart pan coated with cooking spray
• For filling: beat cream cheese and 1/4 cup sugar until smooth, then beat in the egg and vanilla
• Spread over the crust and arrange sliced pears
• Mix sugar and cinnamon together and sprinkle over the tart
• Bake 10 minutes, then reduce oven to 350º and bake another ~20 min
• Let cool and refrigerate before eating