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Maple Pear Butter & Apple Chips

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4-ingredient pear butter made with fresh pears, lemon, and cinnamon lightly sweetened with pure maple syrup. Great to use up lots of fall pears!

Maple Pear Butter served in mason jar with a spoon surrounded by apple chips by Flora & Vino

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’m a bit obsessed with fruit spreads and butters.

It all started with my classic Pumpkin Apple Butter, but I’ve since branched into all sorts of fruity flavors.

You might remember that over the summer we did a Blueberry Butter and Peach Butter that squealed “summer!” every time I spooned them onto seeded bread.

With the temperatures quickly cooling, I couldn’t stop thinking about more autumn-inspired spreads.

Sure, summer is great for bright fruity jams, but fall is the season to stand over the stovetop with warming fruits and spice.

I couldn’t get the concept of pear butter out of my head after seeing thick golden jars of the stuff at a local farmer’s market.

So I made this Maple Pear Butter that’s fruit forward, smooth and cinnamon-y, and perfectly sweet but refined sugar-free.

It’s all of your fall feels in a 12 oz. Ball Jar.

You just need four simple ingredients and a seasonal chip for dipping!

pears on cutting board with maple syrup, lemon, and cinnamon by Flora & Vino

Why You Need to Make Maple Pear Butter

So, why the fierce fruit spread love?

Probably because they’re the kind of recipe I used to make when my cooking (what cooking?) was irregular, to say the least.

When I worked a 9-5, fruit spreads felt like something I could easily tackle after hours without making a huge mess or investing a ton of time or ingredients.

They’re fun, light, and delicious.

Plus, they give back in a major way.

You can easily throw them on the stovetop, they make the house smell like pie, and you reap the rewards for weeks.

That airtight jar in the fridge serves as a reminder of the season and the time you took mindfully for yourself to celebrate it.

So, have I turned you into a fruit butter lover yet, too?

diced pear with a knife on cutting board by Flora & Vino

How to Make Maple Pear Butter

I used fresh pears as the base to this pear butter, but you can also use canned pears here, too, if you need to.

(NOTE: Fresh pears will yield the sweetest results!)

The recipe calls for 6 cups, which I found to be roughly six to seven pears, depending on what size you have.

Be sure to peel, core, and de-stem all pears before adding to the recipe!

Then we add in the remaining three ingredients.

Lemon, for a bit of acidic brightness.

Cinnamon, for soothing spice.

Pure maple syrup, for warm maple-y sweetness.

Bare Snacks Apple Chips surrounded by pears by Flora & Vino

Adjust the Sweetness of Pear Butter

The flavor of maple and pears go SO well together.

Ever bitten into a really blah pear?

Depending on your pears, they can wildly sweet and juicy or a bit on the grittier bland side and sometimes it’s hard to tell from the outside.

Taking this into account, you can sweeten your pear butter to taste using more or less maple syrup.

Start with an initial 2-3 Tablespoons, then try a spoonful of the pear butter and add more syrup in small increments to reach your desired taste.

I like my pear butter a little sweeter (but still refined sugar free!) than some of my other fruit-based spreads.

Maybe I’m just warming up my sweet tooth for the holidays, but I think this spread tastes best with a little extra maple love!

diced pear in blender with cinnamon in Vitamix by Flora & Vino

Pear Butter + Apple Chips

If you’re looking for a fun way to taste test, try dipping a chip into the butter on the stovetop while you’re waiting for it to cool.

It’ll basically taste like pie filling.

I served my Maple Pear Butter with Bare Snacks Apple Chips.

It really doesn’t get more “fall” than pears on apples, am I right?

Try dipping your apple chips in pear butter for the best fruit on fruit seasonal snack.

I love these 1-ingredient apple chips that have no added sugar, oils, or salt for a good-for-you fruit butter vehicle.

Maple Pear Butter served in mason jar with a spoon by Flora & Vino

How to Serve Maple Pear Butter

This Maple Pear Butter is the tastiest way to use up all of those leftover pears during the fall season.

Maple Pear Butter will be done after thirty minutes on the stovetop, but you can add more time to simmer for even more depth of flavor!

This recipe can be canned, if you like, so you can enjoy fresh pear butter all year round!

Grab a bag of Bare Snacks Apple Chips and get dipping.

Some other ideas for serving are:

  • spread on toast
  • swirled in oatmeal
  • in yogurt
  • on crackers
  • in a peanut butter sandwich
  • on ice cream

Enjoy!

Maple Pear Butter served in mason jar with a spoon surrounded by apple chips by Flora & Vino

More Fruit Butters

  • Blueberry Butter (No Sugar-Added)

  • Low Sugar Pumpkin Apple Butter

  • 4-Ingredient Peach Butter

  • Low Sugar Applesauce Apple Butter

More Fruit Jams

  • Low Sugar Fig Jam

  • Strawberry Chia Seed Jam

  • Raspberry Chia Seed Jam

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Maple Pear Butter served in mason jar with a spoon surrounded by apple chips by Flora & Vino

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4-ingredient pear butter made with fresh pears, lemon, and cinnamon lightly sweetened with pure maple syrup. Great to use up lots of fall pears!


Ingredients

  • 6 cups pears, fresh or canned (fresh for best results), cored and skins peeled
  • 1/2 lemon, squeezed
  • 3–4 TBSP pure maple syrup (+more as desired for sweeter butter)
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • Bare Snacks Apple Chips

Instructions

  1. Add the fresh pears, lemon, maple syrup, and cinnamon to a high speed blender and process until smooth but not liquified.
  2. Pour the pear mixture into a large pan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then reduce heat slightly to medium low. You want the mixture to remain bubbling but not boiling. Allow to simmer like this for ~30 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes to prevent burning. Pear butter is done when it’s thickened up and coats the back of the spoon when stirred.
  3. Taste the mixture and add more maple syrup, if desired, for sweetness.
  4. Let the pear butter cool to room temperature then transfer to glass jars and store in the refrigerate. Pear butter keeps for up to 2 weeks.
  5. Enjoy on all of the things, including Bare Snacks Apple Chips!

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  1. Sue

    October 13, 2019 at 5:32 pm

    How much does the pear butter make? Can it be frozen?

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    • Flora & Vino

      October 14, 2019 at 12:06 am

      Hi Sue! The recipe makes about 1.5 cups. I haven’t tried freezing it but it keeps in the fridge for several weeks.

      XOXO Lauren

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