Cream Cheese Stuffed Poached Pears wrapped in Puff Pastry
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Cream Cheese Stuffed Poached Pears wrapped in Puff Pastry
Category
Desserts
Ingredients
- pears
- 1 sheet of puff pastry, thawed
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 4 oz mascarpone
- powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- Fustini's West Michigan Blueberry Balsamic Vinegar
- apple juice (or water)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- eggs for egg wash (optional)
Ingredients
Directions
- Reduce balsamic over medium heat with blueberries until it starts to thicken. Set aside. Peel &, core pears. Poach in apple juice with the cinnamon stick until fork tender. Set aside.
- Whip in a mixer, the mascarpone and cream cheeses with powdered sugar and molasses until soft. Pipe or spoon mixture into pears. Cut puff pastry into squares large enough to wrap around pears. Wrap the pears and seal well with egg wash as a glue, brush with egg wash and bake at 425 until pastry is brown. To serve, set on dessert plate and drizzle with West MichiganBlueberry Balsamic reduction.