Brie and Pear Tart
A sweet and savory Brie and Pear Tart recipe for fall. It’s simple to make, yet looks luxurious!

If you’ve been reading ASP very long, you know, there are very few things I enjoy as much as cheese. In fact I believe cheese to be an ingredient that makes every other ingredient better.
Don’t believe me?
- Cheese and Chocolate: Ricotta Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Cheese and Seafood: Southern Shrimp and Cheesy Grits
- Cheese and Pumpkin: Creamy Chocolate Pumpkin Bar
- Cheese and Pickles: Ploughman’s Lunch
- Cheese and Beets: Roasted Beet and Radicchio Salad
And you doubted.

Pear and Brie Tart
Personally, I adore pairing fruit and cheese.
This simple, yet elegant, Brie and Pear Tart recipe holds the perfect balance of sweet and savory. It is not exactly a dessert, or an appetizer… It’s both!
This pear tart is easy to make, and is the perfect appetizer to make-and-take to dinner parties this season.

How to Make Pear Brie Tart
- Simply fit a pie crust down into a tart pan.
- Spread soft brie over the bottom.
- Arrange thin ripe pear slices in the shape of a flower, over the brie.
- Then brush on a brandy glaze and bake!
Pro Tip: You can get creative with the pattern on top. This flower pattern allows you to squeeze in a lot of pear slices.

Serving Suggestions
Serve this Brie and Pear Tart as a luxurious first course, as a main course with a salad, or as a European-style dessert (meaning not super sweet.)
Anyway you serve this tart, it’s sure to be a show stopper.

More Tart Recipes You Will Love
- Fresh Tomato Tart
- Mini Cherry Tarts Recipe
- Meyer Lemon Tart
- Tomato Galette (Savory Italian Pie)
- Irish Potato Pie
- Tamale Pie Recipe

Brie and Pear Tart Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 roll-out refrigerated pie crust, or homemade
- 8 ounces ripe brie cheese (1 wedge)
- 3-4 ripe pears
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 1/2 tablespoons Pear Brandy or pear schnapps
- Salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Roll out the piecrust and carefully fit it down into the tart pan—making sure not to stretch the dough. Fold the excess dough inward and press into the ridges of the pan.
- Slice the brie into thin strips, leaving the rind intact. Cover the bottom of the tart with the brie and press around evenly.
- Cut the pears into super-thin slices. Overlap them around the exterior of the tart pan, leaving a hole in the middle. Then stand the slices up and press into the exposed brie, creating the shape of a rose. Continue to bend and overlap the pears all the way to the center. It will take very thin slices to curl in the middle.
- Mix the brown sugar and pear brandy in a small bowl. Drizzle over the top of the pears; then sprinkle with salt.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the brie is bubbling up and the crust in golden. Sit for 10 minutes before extracting it from the tart pan and cutting.



Although I could easily eat brie or goat cheese straight up with nothing added, my favorite thing is how my mom prepares brie every Thanksgiving. She takes a HUGE sourdough, and hollows out all the bread in the center. She then fills it with TONS of brie, tops it with a “secret” spice, and cooks it up in the oven until the brie is completely melted and DELICIOUS. We then use the bread that was hallowed out to scoop up the brie. My family goes nuts for it, it’s like lions going after an antelope, pure carnage!
And that tart looks amazing, I have to make it!
I’m half French, so I eat any good cheese with just a loaf of fresh bread.. delicious!
Btw, can I still participate in the giveaway if I’m Canadian but currently living in the US?
Either way, thanks for the giveaway, and I can’t wait to try this recipe :)
I love a grilled brie panini with caramelized onions and spinach. YUM.
I love brie & pear quesadillas!
I love, love, LOVE making grilled apple, bacon, brie sandwiches with spicy sweet honey mustard. Fantastic combo!
P.S. I’m making this tonight. Maybe it will trump my previous favorite brie recipe.
Happy SITS day! This tart looks incredible! :)
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I would kill for some crusty bread spread with apricot preserves and a slice of brie. My absolute favorite way to eat brie – and I don’t like apricot flavored ANYTHING on its own. But really, I love it plain, in sandwiches, baked with nuts, I’ll take it any way!
brie on some nice french bread. that’s all i need.