4 apricot pear desserts Recipes

no-soak pitted prunes, roughly chopped, warm tea, lemon juice, ripe dessert pears, fresh breadcrumbs, butter, melted, phyllo pastry sheets, apricot preserves, walnut pieces, icing sugar , to dust

dried fruit compote with sambuca, this quick compote is a good choice for a winter dinner when you have little time to cook but want to make an impression. you can prepare it ahead (it s better made ahead), then spoon it over store-bought ice cream to create an original and memorable dessert. i also like it with blue cheese at the end of a meal, especially if there s a dessert wine on the table., dried peaches or nectarines, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried pears , cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips, dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips or quartered, golden raisins, dried cherries, water, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon zest strips, fresh lemon juice, sambuca or other anise liqueur

a selection of your favorite dessert wines, such as: sweet sherry , port, vin santo, riesling, asti spumante, store bought semisweet cookies , such as almond toasts or biscotti, fresh red or green seedless grapes, ripe pears, assorted dried fruit : apricots, dates, figs