Gingerbread-Pear Trifle

Name: Gingerbread-Pear Trifle
Yield: Yields one 3-quart trifle
Ingredients: 3 cups, red wine; 1 cup (7 ounces/198 grams), sugar; 1 , cinnamon stick; 1 tablespoon, black peppercorns; 4 pounds (1.81 kilograms), firm pears, such as Bosc or Bartlett, peeled, halved lengthwise, and cored; 1 recipe, Bold and Spicy Gingerbread; 3 cups, vanilla custard, chilled (use our attached recipe or use your own); 2 cups, whipped cream, lightly sweetened

Desserts or Baked Goods
For Two
Fruit Desserts
Cakes
Holiday
Great American Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2009

Spicy gingerbread is the basis for this fancy holiday trifle made with pears poached in red wine, creamy vanilla custard, and whipped cream.

SERVES Yields one 3-quart trifle

TIME 1 hour, plus 30 minutes cooling and 2 hours chilling

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