Pear Walnut Crisp
Baked crisps are amazing and I have made many different types of fruit crisps. This pear walnut crisp has a buttery crunch with the sweet taste of pears in every bite! I am so getting into the fall season! Seriously, it’s my favorite time of year for baking and you will love this pear walnut crisp! What a great dessert to kick off your holiday baking!
This delicious dessert is loaded with pears, walnuts and a crunchy topping that you will fall in love with! There’s nothing like a hot, right out of the oven, pear walnut crisp topped with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping! Oh my, so yummy!

I also made a pear pecan cobbler, along with this pear walnut crisp, last weekend that I will be posting soon. You can never have too much goodness when it comes to seasonal fruit desserts! I needed to use up my pears and what better way than a quick and easy pear walnut crisp and a pear pecan cobbler, which will be on the blog soon.
This pear walnut crisp is definitely sweet and so tasty. If you love apples, my apple pear walnut crisp is to die for as well!
How often do you have fruit that doesn’t get eaten? Fruit in general seems to go bad at our house but when added to a baked crisp like this, that ripe fruit makes such an awesome tasting dessert! This pear walnut crisp is just such an example of a great way to use up fruit before it gets tossed, especially if you buy lots of fruit like we do.
Try this pear walnut crisp today!
- 8 Bartlett pears (peeled and sliced)
- 1 cup walnuts (chopped)
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ stick butter
- 2 cups flour (unsifted)
- 1 cup brown sugar (lightly packed)
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- Preheat oven to 400°
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour and brown sugar.
- Add 1 cup of butter and mix on low speed until crumbly.
- In a medium bowl, whisk sugar, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon together and set aside.
- Peel, core and slice pears. Put in a large bowl, add walnuts.
- Mix in sugar mixture and stir until pears and walnuts are coated well.
- Pour into a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Add the remaining ¼ cup butter (sliced) and just place on top of the fruit mixture randomly.
- Add the flour mixture on top of pears and spread evenly.
- Bake uncovered at 400° for 40 - 50 minutes.
- Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream.
Here are a couple pics that are the perfect size for pinning to Pinterest!
Enjoy, Terri
Do you use Self Rising or Plain flour?
Hi Margaret, no I use plain flour for this recipe. :)