This months recipe is brought to you by Darci, our brand new wine club manager.

"The second I tasted the Mistella, I knew it would be PERFECT 

with the baked pear recipe I love to make!"

Cinnamon-Mascarpone Baked Pears

1/3 cup Mascarpone cheese

2 tsps sugar -I use coconut sugar now for everything 

(its healthy..no difference in taste and you use it 1-1)

1 tbsp unsalted butter

1/4 cup apple juice

1/4 tsp cinnamon

2 medium ripe pears

2 tsps brown sugar

1. Preheat oven to 375 °F
2. Halve pears lengthwise and core. Place core side up in a medium baking dish.
3. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar and a 1/2 teaspoon butter into each cavity.
4. Pour juice into baking dish and bake 25 minutes until pears are tender.
5. Combine cheese, sugar and cinnamon
6. Top each pear half with 1 1/2 tablespoon cheese mixture and serve warm.