Name: Perfect Pear Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 13 min
Ingredients: 1½ cup brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 cup bartlett pear, shredded (fine); 3/4 cups all purpose flour; 1 tsp baking powder; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla sugar; 1 tsp cinnamon; ½ cup melted butter; 1 cup chocolate chips, semi sweet

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Delicious, soft and chewy cookies made with just the right amount of shredded bartlett pears are a real unexpected treat. Give this easy to make pear cookies recipe a try the next time you have pears on hand.

Delicious Cookies Made from Pears

With two large pear trees growing in our backyard, we are always thinking of creative and delicious ways to use the ripe bartlett pears. Although we mostly make fresh homemade pear pies, canned pears or sweet pear juice, I love this cookie recipe option just as well.

The cookies are soft and chewy with just the right amount of natural sweetness.

When preparing the dough, it if appears to be too runny, add a bit more flour. But if the pears are not very juicy, then extra flour won’t be needed. Additionally, the dough can be placed in a resealable freezer-safe bag and stored in the freezer until you are ready to bake a fresh batch of cookies. Cookies always taste best right out of the oven so I love that this dough freezes well.

Perfect Pear Cookies Recipe

Jane and Sonja

Delicious and chewy pear cookies recipe with chocolate chips.

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time 1 hr

Cook Time 13 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Croatian

Servings dozen

Ingredients

1½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup bartlett pear, shredded fine
3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
½ cup melted butter
1 cup chocolate chips, semi sweet

Instructions

Mix egg, sugar and vanilla sugar.
Melt butter and leave it to cool for 1-2 minutes before adding to mixture.
Mix all together. Add salt.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
Fold in the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
Add in pears by hand and mix just until coated.
Add chocolate chips.
Chill in the fridge for half an hour to one hour.
Use a tablespoon to spoon dough onto parchment lined baking sheet.
Bake at 365F for 13 min.
Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Create icing for added flavor by combining 1/4 cup of icing sugar with 1/2 tbsp milk and drizzle over top of cookies.