Hello friends! It’s been a little quiet around here because I was on a trip in the earlier part of September that I plan on sharing about with you, but I haven’t had time yet to go through photos—so hopefully I’ll be able to do that in a week or two! In the meantime, it’s mid-September already and autumn is just around the corner. This is the time of year when I like to make recipes with fall fruit like apples and pears, and this Fresh Pear Crisp is a yummy dessert you’ll want to try!

The crumbly, buttery topping on this crisp is so good! It actually tastes a lot like apple crisp, so apple-lovers will like this too. If you have any fresh pears on hand, this is a good recipe to use them in. Or, if you just have apples, substitute those instead. Or use some apples and some pears and make an apple-pear crisp. While it’s a fairly easy dessert to make, the time-consuming part is peeling and chopping the fresh fruit—but it’s definitely worth it! 🙂

As I mentioned earlier, this pear crisp tastes a lot like apple crisp. If you’d like it to have more of a pear taste, just use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and no nutmeg in the fruit mix—and add a little lemon juice, about 1 teaspoon, and the pear flavor will come through a little more.

Have you used any pears in your fall baking yet?

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