Cherry-Pear Dessert

Today I was trying to think of some new fruit mixtures for Andrew to enjoy because I am beginning to feel like he eats the same thing every day. This is hard to believe because my entire freezer is full of cubes of his food, however, it stills feels like he eats the same apple this or peach that each day. As I was looking at the freezer I saw cubes of cherries and thought that he needed a little cherry today. Now, the question was what to mix with the cherry…so I thought Cherry and Pear might be a good mixture. Since I have not posted a Cherry recipe yet or Pear, I will post those basic purees and then all you have to do is mix the two together. So Simple!

Basic Cherry Puree

1 Bag of Frozen Cherries (red sweet)

Directions:

Place frozen cherries into a microwave safe bowl and place in microwave for about 5 minutes depending on your microwave. Once the cherries are thawed and warmed throughout place them into a blender or food processer. Puree the fruit until it is a nice frothy mixture, cherries have a lot of liquid in them so there is no need to add any extra water.

Pour puree into ice cube tray. Normally one bag of cherries will equal one tray of cubes.

Basic Pear Puree

6-8 D’Anjou Pears

Directions:

Wash, Peel and Cut pears in half taking out core. Place cubes onto a baking sheet and place into a pre-heated 350 degree oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until soft. Once soft, take out of oven and let cool for a few minutes. Cut baked pears into cubes and place into blender and puree until soft. There is a lot of moisture in pears so normally there is no need to add any extra water.

Pour puree into ice cube trays, normally 8 pears is equal to two trays of cubes.

Once you have made these basic puree cubes you can easily make CherryPear Dessert! For a 7-8 month old baby, serve them 2 cubes of Cherry and 2 cubes of Pear. You may need to add some rice or oatmeal cereal to thicken the puree if your baby prefers a less runny mixture.