Candied Walnuts:
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped
- Dash cinnamon
Pears:
- 6 Bosc pears
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 6 Cache Valley® Cheddar Cheese Slices
- 3 pieces bacon, cooked and crumbled
Place 2 tablespoons sugar in a small pan on medium heat, and melt. Add walnut pieces, and coat. Quickly take out, and separate pieces to harden on silicone mat.
Cut pears in half, length-wise, and cut out seeds and stem.
In a larger pan, combine 1/2 cup sugar with water, and place pears in pan cut-side up.
Cover pan, and simmer pears on low-medium heat for 7 to 10 minutes, until pears are cooked through.
Remove cooked pears from pan, and place on dish. Put slice of Cache Valley® Cheddar Cheese, bacon crumbles and candied walnuts on each pear.
Meanwhile, increase heat to medium, and bring remaining sugar water in large pan to a boil until sugar turns from light color to dark and just starts to thicken a little (about 5 to 7 minutes). Stir occasionally with wooden spoon.
Remove from heat immediately, and drizzle over pears; sugar will harden fast. Add dash of cinnamon on top.
CREATED BY: Shelley Schneider, Woodcross, Utah
