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.



You know this speaks to me Sommer! Yum :). I WILL give this a try. The pears are arranged beautifully! Great one.
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I love fried goat cheese. I roll it in some pankp and then fry it up. THen you can eat as it or put in a salad with some beets and walnuts and fresh greens. YUMMO
One of my favorite ways to eat brie is to cut of a slab and sandwich it between two hamburger patties before grilling them. Then, when you take a bite of burger, you get the creamy brie cooked right into the burger. So good!
I love to eat brie on anything!! It’s probably my favorite type of cheese :)
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my fave way to use goat cheese is with individual home made pizzas. My grandson has dairy probs but like many can eat and loves goat cheese.. I usually mash it with herbs and then refrigerator and then cut into pieces for the pizzas… really yummy when using baby spinach, garlic cloves, red onions, baby tomotoes, and olives.. they love it
A friend linked to this amazing recipe on Facebook and it is love at first sight! I will be going shopping for everything needed tomorrow and will be making it for Sunday brunch!
The first time I had brie was on a picnic with my French friends at the Chateau de Chambord, the smell of freshly cut summer grass in the air. Nothing can quite top that experience, but simply brie and French bread together will bring back that wonderful memory.
I love love love brie just sliced with good crusty bread and apples or pears.
That tart is beautiful! I wonder if it would be just as good fresh instead of baked?