Pear Bread Recipe
Pear Bread is a delicious fruit-filled bread recipe. It is naturally sweet and full of flavor with fresh pears, cinnamon, vanilla, and nuts. This recipe makes a savory, special breakfast dish for holiday occasions or anytime.
I started making this recipe, because my sweet neighbor kept bringing me lots of pears off her pear trees. They are the harder pear variety that are used mainly in baking recipes.
I use gluten-free flour in the recipe. The tapioca flour helps the flour bind better. You can use gluten-containing flour with this recipe, but you won’t need the tapioca flour if you do use gluten-containing flour.
This bread is wonderful alone, or it also makes an excellent bread to crumble in my baked pear crumble recipe (recipe follows below).
Ingredients
3 large Eggs, room temperature
3/4 cup pure Coconut Oil
1-1/2 cups Raw Sugar (date or coconut is good)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
3 cups Coconut or whole-grain Oat Flour
2 T. Tapioca Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons ground Ceylon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1-½ teaspoons Himalayan or Real Salt
4 cups of Baking Pears, peeled, cored and chopped
1 tablespoon Lemon or Lime Juice
1/2 cup chopped Walnuts or Pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour an 8×4 inch loaf pan. You can also line the bottom of the pan with some greased parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla extract until well-blended.
- In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
- Add flour mixture to the wet ingredients and whisk until just combined.
- Toss chopped pears with lemon juice.
- Fold the chopped pears and nuts in by hand until just combined and pour into the pan.
- Bake the bread for fifty to sixty minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool.
Note:
1. Baking pears are usually harder and less sweet than many of the softer pear varieties. Choose the hardest fresh pear variety for this recipe.
- You can also use canned pears if that is all you have available.
- Apples and Asian pears can be substituted in this recipe.
Baked Pear Crumble Recipe
Ingredients
4 or 5 large baking Pears (cored, seeded, and sliced in half)
1 stick Butter
1 T. Ceylon Cinnamon
1 T. Nutmeg Powder
1 Pear Bread Recipe baked and ready to use in this recipe.
Baking dishes – 13 x 9 or 14 x 10 will both work well.
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Place the large pears in the baking dish and sprinkle with the nutmeg and cinnamon.
- Slice the butter in small pieces.
- Place half of the small pieces of butter on the pears before baking.
- Bake the pears about 20 minutes or until soft.
- Remove from heat.
- Crumble the cooked pear bread over the baked pears and dot with last half of the butter pieces.
- Then warm the bread crumble with baked pears in the oven until warm enough to serve.
- Serve for breakfast alone, or you can serve this dish topped with whipping cream or ice cream as a dessert.
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