Amaretto Baked Pears With Mascarpone

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 ripe bosc pears, halved and core removed with spoon
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 150 ml amaretto liqueur, plus a little more
• 200 g mascarpone
• 1 1/2 tablespoons icing sugar
• 100 g unsalted butter
• 100 g caster sugar
• 60 g plain flour
• 1 egg
• 100 g whole almonds, coarsley ground in processor
• 8 amaretti cookie crumbs

Recipe

• 1 to make almond cream - beat butter and sugar together until combined, add flour and egg until combined. beat in almonds, stir in 3/4 of crushed biscuits.
• 2 pack 1 tablespoon of almond cream into the cored out section of each pear half.
• 3 split the vanilla pod in half, scrape out seeds and mix with sugar. chop vanilla pod into large pieces.
• 4 place pears into baking dish, sprinkle over vanilla sugar, remaining biscuits, vanilla pod pieces and drizzle with amaretto.
• 5 bake in over at 200c gor 10 minutes or until pears are cooked.
• 6 mix together mascapone and icing sugar.
• 7 remove pears from oven and transfere to serving plates.
• 8 drizzle a little extra amaretto into baking dish and stir pan juices.
• 9 serve pan with sweetened mascopone and the amaretto pan juices - enjoy.