Red Wine Pears with Vanilla Cream and Pistachios

Ingredients

• 3 pears
• 250 ml dry red wine
• 3 tbsp Marsala
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 0.5 lemon
• 4 thin slices fruit cake (or sponge)
• 200 ml whipping cream
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 4 tbsp chopped pistachios

Instructions

1. 1.

   Heat red wine, Marsala, sugar, cinnamon and crushed lemon in a pot. Peel the pears, halve them, remove stems and cores, dice the flesh, add to the wine mixture and simmer covered for about 5 minutes. The pears should remain firm.

2. 2.

   In a second pot reduce the cream with vanilla sugar until it is roughly half its volume.

3. 3.

   Cut four circles from the fruit cake using a glass. Distribute the pears in red wine over four glasses. Place one slice of fruit cake on each, pour some cream over it and sprinkle pistachios before serving.