These are impressive and impressively easy to make. Well, easy might not be the right word, but they aren't as hard as they look. Basically they are a poached pear baked on a pear shaped piece of puff pastry with a lattice of puff pasty draped over the pear and crimped to the bottom piece of pastry. The lattice is easy to make, just use a lattice cutter! (I've always wanted to use one of those.) The little decorative leaves are easy, just cut out a leaf shape (you can do this with a circle cutter, just overlap two cuts and the middle is the right shape) and use the back of the knife to make the vein pattern and "glue" them on with egg wash. Just bake and voila, a beautiful and tasty dessert.
Beautiful and it's fruit so it must be healthy!
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