Baked Pearfection

This is a fancy looking dessert that is actually easy to prePEAR and includes basic ingredients, all of which can be found at Trader Joe's of course!

Recipe

2 pears (pears in season will work)
1 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp honey
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp Drambuie (a spiced brandy like liquor, brandy will work as well)

1/4 cup Candied Pecans or Candied Walnuts (optional)

1.    Preheat oven to 375˚ F
2.    Peel and halve pears.  Use a spoon to remove cores.  Arrange pear halves, cut side up, on an oven safe dish.
3.    In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, honey, vanilla, and Drambuie. When mixture is warm and butter has melted, remove from heat.  Brush mixture onto all sides of each pear half, and then pour mixture onto the pears, letting excess liquid run off the sides into baking dish.  Set saucepan aside for further use.  Drape baking dish with foil and bake pears for 20 minutes.
4.    Plate pears, leaving any liquid in baking dish.  Pour liquid into the same saucepan and reduce over medium-low heat for 5 minutes until liquid is syrupy.
5.    When serving, sprinkle with a few pecans and spoon syrup over each pear.

Serves 4