Let’s bake Tarta de Pera | easy Pear Pie

On October 19, 2025 By NoémiIn Sweets

Oh boy, autumn. 🤎🍂🧡

Besides a cozy, warm bowl of soup or something apple-y and cinnamon-y there’s one more thing that screams autumn for me… Pears.
Pears…

Close-up of pear pie showing flaky crust and juicy filling.

…lot of pears and very little dough – just how I like it.

Okay, I guess, I don’t even have to waste more time with this intro here… So, there you go –
… today I have a super easy – super fast – and super delicious recipe here for you – because there’s always room for dessert, right? … Hombre, claro!
And I promise the longest step in the whole baking process is to wait for the pie to cool down a bit before slicing it up.

Ingredients:

1 kg pears
2 egg
60 g flour
60 g sugar
30 g melted butter
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Half a lemon juice
Peach or apricot jam
Cinnamon powder
Vanilla aroma

* These measures are for a 20 cm baking tin.

⏱️prep time: 15 minutes
⏱️baking time: 50 minutes
🌡️ baking temperature: 180°C

Easy pear pie recipe ingredients arranged on a countertop: fresh pears, flour, sugar, eggs, butter, cinnamon, vanilla, and peach jam.

So, let’s start with prepping for this adventure. Wash and peel the pears, and cut them up into thin, small pieces. Leave 1-2 pears on the side for decoration. Or if you want to feel extra autumn-y, you can decorate with apple slices later.

Thin slices of peeled pears ready to be mixed into pear pie filling.

Now, in a big bowl mix together the eggs, sugar, and melted butter, also add the cinnamon and vanilla for your own taste.
When this is done, slowly add the flour, baking powder, and pinch of salt. Mix it again, don’t worry it’s gonna be a bit thick.

Eggs, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and lemon juice mixed together in a bowl for pear pie filling.

Mixing dry ingredients—flour, baking soda, and salt—into the wet pear pie mixture in a large bowl.

Neeext: we are adding the pears into the dough and mixing it well together, again – big surprise, I know…

If you feel that the mixture is gonna be waaay too sweet, now it’s the time to add a bit of lemon juice – for your taste – I squeezed in half a smaller lemon.

Close-up of thin pear slices being folded into the pear pie dough mixture

Neeext: put baking paper in your tin, make sure the paper is in one piece so the liquid stays inside. Then, we are gonna pour our peary – doughy whateverbatterthisis into our baking tin – push it down a bit, make it even on the top, cuz the decoration layer is coming soon.

Pear pie mixture spread evenly in a parchment-lined baking pan before baking.

Neeext: we decorate. So let’s prep the rest of the pears – or apples – cut them up nicely, and put it on the top of our pie in a nice circle-ish kind of way, then brush the top with the peach jam.

Decorated pear pie topped with thin pear and apple slices brushed with peach jam.

Homemade pear pie beautifully arranged with pear slices on top and coated in glossy peach jam.

… I don’t know how to place them nicely, but you get the idea.

Now in the pre-heated oven it goes at 180°C for a good 50 minutes – in my oven at least. Keep your eyes on it, let it bake until it’s getting a bit golden on top.
When it’s done, take it out from the oven – duh. – and brush the top again with a bit of peach jam, and let it rest for a while.

Baked pear pie being brushed with peach jam to give a glossy finish before cooling

Finished baked pear pie brushed with peach jam for a shiny glaze before cooling to room temperature.

… and now we have to wait a few hours for it to cool down to room temp before slicing, unfortunately.

………..

Boom, here we are again a few hours later in the afternoon, right on time for a cup of coffee and a slice of fresh pear pie for merienda! Perfection.

… as I said, a lot of pears and a little moist dough

Give a bit of mmmh to me 🎶

I literally just ate a slice, but after these pictures I can’t stop eyeballing the leftovers in the kitchen …

Aaaanyways,

See you at the next one,

Noémi

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