What’s on your Thanksgiving dessert menu this year? Often I end up making several Thanksgiving desserts, but I always have a chocolate for my husband and a fruit pie for my daughter. Normally apple pie is on the table, but this year I saw some ripe organic pears at Trader Joe’s and our menu changed!
The natural sweetness of the tender pears with just a touch of cinnamon steals the show in this pie. Serve it with a little homemade vegan dulce de leche and some dairy-free ice cream or whipped topping, and you will be in heaven! I also experimented with a topless pie this time, instead of a crumb topping, and I love how pretty it plated.
DON’T FORGET TO USE
Topless Pear Pie (Vegan & Gluten-free)
You will love the ease and natural sweetness of the tender pears with just a touch of cinnamon. Serve with dairy-free ice cream and dulce de leche for a nice flavor of caramel
Tips: If you do not have a Wholly Gluten-Free Pie Crust or another gluten-free vegan crust available near you, you can make a crust from scratch. Click here for a gluten-free and vegan recipe.
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Ingredients
Pie Filling
- 5 ripe pears sliced
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- ⅔ cup gluten-free flour (I used Namaste Foods Organic Perfect Flour Blend)
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons melted vegan butter
- ⅛ teaspoon Redmond Real Salt
Crumb crust topping
- 2 tablespoons vegan butter
- ⅔ + ⅔ cups maple sugar (date sugar and brown sugar also work)
- ⅔ cup gluten-free flour (I used Namaste Foods Organic Perfect Flour Blend)
Pie crust
Wholly Gluten-Free Pie Crust or make one from scratch.
Optional: top with homemade vegan dulce de leche or store-bought caramel sauce and dairy-free ice cream.
Directions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove your frozen pie crust from the freezer or make your homemade crust.
- Wash, peel, and slice pears and put them in a large bowl.
- Combine cinnamon, coconut sugar, gluten-free flour, and Redmond Real Salt into a small bowl. Pour mixture over the pears and stir to coat. Stir in lemon juice and melted butter.
- Layer pears in a circular pattern in the pie dish, layer by layer.
- In a small mixing bowl, add maple sugar, gluten-free flour, and vegan butter, and combine with a fork until combined.
- Spread crumb topping to the top of the pears.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes or until pears are tender.
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Wow! Pear pie looks stunning and stirs my cravings! 🙂
This looks great and am going to try it!
Awesome! Let me know what you think of it!
Please add accurate measurements to this
Updated! thank you! I think it reverted to a previous draft for some reason!
I know this is old but I just wanted to say thanks, this is a really great recipe 🙂
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!