Baked Pears With Marsala-Honey Syrup

The baked pears in this easy fruit dessert recipe simply bake in a sauce of Marsala wine mingled with honey, orange, cinnamon and vanilla. Serve the pears warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or with a small sugar cookie.

Prep/Cook Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes, Servings: 8

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Ingredients

• ¾ cup Marsala wine
• ¾ cup warm water
• ½ cup honey
• 3 strips orange zest (3-inch)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 vanilla bean
• 4 firm ripe Bosc or Anjou pears, halved lengthwise and cored

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Whisk wine, water and honey in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Add orange zest and cinnamon stick. Split vanilla bean, scrape out the sticky black seeds with the tip of a small, sharp knife and add them and the pod to the baking dish. Place the pears cut-side down in the baking dish.
3. Bake, basting every 15 minutes or so with the wine mixture, until the pears are very tender, 1 to 1¼ hours. Serve the pears warm, drizzled with the sauce.

Nutritional Information

Per Serving: 150 calories; 0 g fat (0 g sat, 0 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 34 g carbohydrate; 17 g added sugars; 28 g total sugars; 0 g protein; 3 g fiber; 4 mg sodium; 136 mg potassium

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