Simple Way to Prepare Award-winning Almond pear shortbread bars

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, almond pear shortbread bars. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Almond pear shortbread bars is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Almond pear shortbread bars is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have almond pear shortbread bars using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Almond pear shortbread bars:

1. Prepare Crust
2. Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
3. Get 1 1/4 cup flour
4. Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
5. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds
6. Take 1/4 teaspoon salt
7. Make ready Filling
8. Get 4 1/2 cups diced pears
9. Get 2 tablespoons sugar
10. Take 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
11. Prepare 3 teaspoons cornstarch
12. Make ready Crumble topping
13. Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softenend
14. Prepare 1 cup flour
15. Prepare 1/4 cup granulated sugar
16. Prepare 1/4 cup brown sugar
17. Prepare 1 teaspoon cinnamon
18. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt
19. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped almonds

Steps to make Almond pear shortbread bars:

1. Line a 9×9” pan with foil and grease with butter. Cooking sprays are the devil..in my opinion. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Prepare the crust by slowly mixing all the crust ingredients in a large bowl using a pastry cutter or fork. The mixture will be crumbly. Press the crust in the prepared pan and bake for 15 minutes.
3. If pears are ripe and soft - Core and diced. If pears are tougher you will need to par cook them by doing the following: place the diced pears in a medium saucepan. Fill the pan with water so that half the pears are covered. Cook over medium heat, bringing to a boil then simmering for about 5 minutes until the pears just start to turn semi-translucent. Drain very well.
4. Stir together pears, sugars, cinnamon and cornstarch
5. Mix the topping ingredients together just as you did for the crust. It will be crumbly.
6. Remove the hot crust from the oven. Sprinkle the pears carefully on top (make sure they are well drained first – do not add any of the extra liquid!), then sprinkle with the topping. Bake for an additional 35-45 minutes until the crumble topping starts to brown.
7. Cool in pan completely before using foil to lift out.
8. Slice and serve.

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