Salted Caramel Pear Pie. Salted caramel and pears yum. A drizzle of salted caramel sauce makes this unique pie a little slice of heaven.
Use a slightly firm sweet pear variety that can hold up to the heat pre-cooking the fruit helps release some of the juices for a better pie filling. Drizzled with a warm caramel sauce her salted caramel pear pie is a play on the more familiar apple pie. Fran Kolenik owner of Drive-By Pies in Brookline always uses fresh fruit so winter can pose a bit of a problem.
If time permits chill pie in fridge or freezer for 10 minutes.
Salted Caramel Pear Pie. A base of buttery-crisp phyllo dough is topped with thin slices of fresh pear and brushed with salted. The natural sweetness of pears combined with a deliciously buttery crumble topping is something to write home about. For the crust place the flour sugar salt and butter in the bowl of a food processor.