Pears Helene

"A super dessert--great for unexpected guests. It lives all snug and secure in your freezer and pantry until needed."
 
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Ready In:
10mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
3-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Chill pears during dinner.
  • Heat hot fudge topping in microwave one minute.
  • Whip cream and add vanilla and sugar.
  • Put one or two pear halves in a small bowl.
  • Put a scoop (about 1/2 cup) ice cream over pears.
  • Drizzle 2 tablespoons of hot fudge over ice cream.
  • Plop a couple of spoonfuls of whipped cream on top.
  • Sprinkle with a teaspoon or so chopped nuts (optional).

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Reviews

  1. This is a very elegant dessert. I have made it twice now and cannot believe I forgot to review it the first time! The only thing I did differently was to use Lee Lee's famous chocolate sauce recipe #19678 instead of the hot fudge. I just feel the fudge is too thick and heavy for the pears, I like all the flavors to shine through in this blissfully easy and SO delicious recipe. This will become a dessert staple in this house. It is a wonderfully light way to end a meal. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us all.
     
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I've been cooking for over 45 years now. First I made Jello pudding. Next I learned how to make cream sauce. I still like creamed tuna over toast, rice or mashed potatoes. Many years ago I found a greeting card that said "When I retire I'm going to move to a big house in the country and live with a lot of cats...I've already got a start on the cats." I bought the store's entire stock and sent them to EVERYBODY! Well, now I'm retired, I live in a regular sized house in the country (on about 80 acres), I have a bunch of cats and feed a lot of other critters. There's a mini pig (she's still pretty big),a lop-eared rabbit, a vole who moved in under the stove, a huge flock of chickens, loads of songbirds, an opossum behind the barn(who sneaks in to eat), herons in the spring, pacific tree frogs, and the occasional coyote. We're even in the territory of a couple of golden eagles who stop by a couple of times a year. That's a chicken on my shoulder. JC (Junior Chicken). How he ended up as an indoor chicken is a long, complicated story. JC never learned to crow right. Maybe it was being deprived of role models in his formative months.
 
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