Upside Down Pear Pie
Ingredients
Pie Dough
- 1 3/4 Cup All purpose flour
- 2 Tablespoons Cane sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Salt
- 8 Tablespoons Unsalted butter frozen
- 1 Egg
- 1-2 Tablespoons vodka ice cold
Filling
- 8 Tablespoon Brown sugar
- 4 Tablespoon Unsalted butter
- 4 Pears peeled and sliced thinly
- 1-2 Tablespoons Lemon juice
Instructions
Dough
- In a mixing bowl combine flour, salt and sugar.
- Grate the frozen butter on top of the flour and cut it in with a pastry knife. Be careful that the butter doesn’t melt. You need to work quickly.
- Add the egg and knead in by hand. Again, you need to work quickly.
- One tablespoon at a time, knead in the vodka until you feel the dough is coming together without much effort.
- Put the dough on cling wrap and form a disk. Wrap it airtight and let it rest for at least 1-2 hours in the fridge.
Filling
- Preheat your oven to 350 Farhenheit.
- Prepare a baking dish by greasing it with oil or melted butter.
- In a saucepan, combine your unsalted butter and brown sugar on medium low heat until it turns golden brown. Poor the sauce in your prepared dish.
- Peel, core and slice your pear in thin pieces. Drizzle the pear slices with the lemon juice then place them on top of your caramel sauce in the baking pan.
- Roll out your chilled dough onto a floured counter top. You want to roll it into a round circle slightly bigger then your baking pan. Carefully place the dough on top of the pears and tuck the sides gently under the pears. *
- Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes.
- Let the pie cool on the cooling rack for 10 minutes.
- Place your serving plate on top of the pie and carefully turn it over. You can enjoy the pie warm or let it cool down completely.
Notes
*Can be that you have some left over dough. If so you can cut out some cookies and sprinkles with sugar after some egg wash and bake for 10-15 minutes.