I have three pears I need to use up before they go bad.?

baked pears with raspberry cream cheese

you like to bake? how about a chocolate pear cake to die for! (and conveniently calls for 3 pears)

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 eggs, at room-temperature

4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter

3/4 cup sugar

3 very ripe pears, peeled, in a small dice

3/4 cup bittersweet chocolate chunks

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and dust with breadcrumbs (I cheated and used flour), set aside.

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together, set aside.

Using a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the eggs on high speed until pale and very thick. (In a professional Kitchen Aid, it takes at least five minutes; on a home machine, it will take nine minutes to get sufficient volume)

While the eggs are whipping, brown the butter. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan (because it will foam a lot) and cook it until the butter browns and smells nutty (about 6 to 8 minutes). It helps to frequently scrape the solids off the bottom of the pan in the last couple minutes to ensure even browning. Remove from the flame but keep in a warm spot.

Add the sugar to the eggs and whip a few minutes more.

Just as the egg-sugar mixture is starting to loose volume, turn the mixture down to stir, and add the flour mixture and brown butter. Add one third of the flour mixture, then half of the butter, a third of the flour, the remaining butter, and the rest of flour. Whisk until just barely combined — no more than a minute from when the flour is first added — and then use a spatula to gently fold the batter until the ingredients are combined. It is very important not to over-whisk or fold the batter or it will lose volume.

Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle the pear and chocolate chunks over the top, and bake until the cake is golden brown and springs back to the touch, about 40 to 50 minutes or a tester comes out clean

Ingredients

1 bottle dry red wine

1/2 cup honey

4 Bosc pears or eight small Anjou pears

Directions

Heat the oven to 250ºF/120ºC. Peel the pears from top to bottom, leaving the stem intact and lay them in a lidded oven-proof dish just large enough to hold them. Bring the wine and honey to a boil, cover the pears, cover, and transfer to the oven. Bake four to five hours, turning now and again, until very tender.

Gently remove the pears to a serving bowl with a slotted spoon. Boil the liquid rapidly until reduced to syrup, about 20 minutes. Pour over the pears and reserve at room temperature several hours, or cover and refrigerate until about an hour before serving. Serve with whipped cream which you have sweetened with a little sugar and flavoured with Cognac.

Dice the pears (save a little off to the side for the dressing). Add it to a spring salad mix or arugula. Crumble in a little gorgonzola cheese, crushed walnuts and dried cranberries. For the dressing about 2 table spoons of the diced pears and mash them. Add, to the mash 1/4 cup white wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar will work nicely too), 1/4 of olive oil, a pinch of salt and pepper and blend it all together. This way you don't have to cook or bake them.

I found a salad like this in the store and decided "shoot, I can make that myself". So it is not my original idea at work. However, when looking at your question I found that it is a pretty common recipe. Here is a link for this too.

I'd just eat them! Most very ripe pears are not that great for cooking/baking and will fall apart. Just dice up, top w/ a dollop of mayo and shredded cheddar cheese. Nice lunch.

I like to use them in salads. Mixed greens with diced avocados, thin sliced red onions, sliced pears, walnuts and feta cheese, use a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

I also like to take sliced pears and sprinkle with a little sugar and roll them in crescent rolls with some goat cheese. Brush with butter and bake, very tasty.

if you have some pizza dough on hand spread it onto a pizza pan , slice the apples and adjust them on the dough , get some raisins and sprinkle them on , in a dish mix some brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon and sprinkle it on top of the pears, if you have Pecans or walnuts chop some and sprinkle them on top , place in a preheated 425 F oven bake for 20 minutes or until he crust is golden , slice and serve with coffee.

Make a smoothie!

Blend the pears in with another fruit (peaches, pineapple, bananas, etc.), some vanilla yogurt (NOT plain), a bit of milk, and some crushed ice! It will be great! You could try several recipes even . . . if you were just making one smoothie you could use just one pear for it.

Eat them! If you are needing to use them up before they go bad, that is a sign they are to ripe to do much cooking with.

slice and saute them in some butter, sugar, and a little cinnamon, top with ice cream.

or bake them whole until soft and serve with vanilla ice cream.