Pears Curacao

A classy dessert combining cooked pears and Curacao liqueur

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup water
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1  cup sugar
• 8  fresh pears, halved and cored
• 1⁄2 cup Curacao (or similar liqueur)
• 1⁄2 cup black currant jam
• 1  cup  whipping cream
• 1  pinch sugar

Directions

1. Cook the water, vanilla and 1 cup sugar until the sugar dissolves.
2. Poach the pears in this syrup until soft; remove the pears.
3. Add the Curaçao to the syrup and cook until thick.
4. Put pear halves on a serving platter or on 8 individual serving dishes and fill the centers with 1/2 Tbs jam per pear half.
5. Pour the syrup over them.
6. Whip the cream until stiff, beat in the pinch of sugar, and spoon over the pears.