Almond pear shortbread bars. Pear Almond Shortbread Bars. by: drbabs. Place rack in center of oven. I love making these Almond Shortbread Bars during the holidays because they are festive, super easy to make, and everyone loves them!
Almond shortbread bars make for a lovely tasty freshly baked snack recipe with a delectable taste of almonds.
A recipe which dose not require any special baking skills, the almond shortbread bars are prepared by mixing together flour, sugar, eggs and almond extract.
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You can cook Almond pear shortbread bars using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Almond pear shortbread bars
- 🢂 of Crust.
- 🢂 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softened.
- 🢂 1 1/4 cup of flour.
- 🢂 1/4 cup of sugar.
- 🢂 1/2 cup of chopped almonds.
- 🢂 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- 🢂 of Filling.
- 🢂 4 1/2 cups of diced pears.
- 🢂 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- 🢂 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- 🢂 3 teaspoons of cornstarch.
- 🢂 of Crumble topping.
- 🢂 1/2 cup of unsalted butter, softenend.
- 🢂 1 cup of flour.
- 🢂 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- 🢂 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
- 🢂 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- 🢂 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
- 🢂 1/2 cup of chopped almonds.
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instructions Almond pear shortbread bars
- Line a 9×9” pan with foil and grease with butter. Cooking sprays are the devil..in my opinion. Preheat oven to 350°F.
- 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..
- 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..
- Stir together pears, sugars, cinnamon and cornstarch.
- Mix the topping ingredients together just as you did for the crust. It will be crumbly..
- 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..
- Cool in pan completely before using foil to lift out..
- Slice and serve..
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