Ingredients
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1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
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1/4 cup butter, melted
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4 ounces cream cheese, softened
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1 large pear, peeled, sliced
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1/3 cup sugar
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1/4 cup flour
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1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1 ready-to-use pie crust (1/2 of 15 oz package)
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3/4 cup vanilla wafer, crushed (about 24)
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1 -2 large baking apple, peeled, sliced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F
- Prepare a crumb mixture by combining vanilla wafer crumbs, brown sugar, and butter, and mixing well.
- Place pie crust on cookie sheet.
- Spread cream cheese across bottom of the crust-- watch out because the dough could tear a bit, so take your time.
- Cover cream cheese with half of the crumb mixture.
- Combine fruit, sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a large bowl and toss to mix well.
- Spread fruit mixture into the pie and cover with the remaining crumb mixture.
- Bake for 35 minutes, when fruit is tender and crust is lightly browned.
- If necessary, you can cover loosely with foil to prevent crust from getting too well done after 25 minutes.