It’s one of the best scents to experience wafting through the house: the smell of baking cinnamon caramelizing atop a decadent dessert. Here, we give you this heavenly scent experience, but with a very healthy “dessert” option in lieu of traditional pastries popping out of the oven. Featuring roasted pears, topped with antioxidant-rich cacao beans and whipped coconut cream, it’s an indulgence you can feel great about.
CINNAMON-BAKED PEARS WITH COCONUT CREAM
Ingredients
- 2 ripe pears
- 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup (per pear)
- Dollop of coconut whipped cream for each pear half (see instructions below)
- Generous sprinkle of cinnamon
- Ava Jane’s Caramelized Cacao Beans, crushed, for topping (you can also add a nut butter or sub coconut yogurt for topping)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Slice the pears in half and gently scoop out the seeds. Drizzle each pear with maple syrup and sprinkle with cinnamon.
- Bake on a baking sheet or in an oven-proof dish until soft and tender, about 25-30 minutes.
- Prepare the coconut cream by refrigerating a can of full-fat coconut milk overnight. Remove it from the fridge without shaking when ready to use, then scoop out the hard cream on top. Discard the liquid. Whip in a bowl until smooth (you can add more maple syrup or stevia at this point).
- Place the pears on a serving plate and add dollups of whipped cream, then add crushed caramelized cacao beans as a topping.
- Serve warm.