Pecan Free Honey-Pear Crumble Bars

Total time1 hr 30 min

Prep time20 min

Cook time40 min

4.9

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These bars are the kind of thing you pull out of the oven and immediately want to eat straight from the pan — golden, fragrant, and just sticky enough from that honey-pear filling. Ripe pears get cooked down with honey, a touch of nutmeg, and a splash of apple cider vinegar until they turn glossy and jammy, which means every bite has real depth rather than just sweetness. The base and crumble are built from rolled oats, rice flour, and tapioca starch, so the texture is satisfyingly crisp and hearty without relying on any tree nuts whatsoever. That matters a lot when you're navigating crumble-style bakes, since so many recipes default to chopped pecans or walnuts in the topping — this one skips them entirely and doesn't miss a beat. Cold butter worked into the dry mixture creates those irresistible clumpy, pea-sized crumbs that bake up crunchy on top while the fruit layer stays soft and luscious underneath. Letting them cool fully before cutting is genuinely worth the patience — the bars hold their shape cleanly and slice into neat, shareable squares that look as good as they taste.

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Ingredients

9 servings

For the crust and crumble

1 ½ cups rolled oats
¾ cup rice flour
¼ cup tapioca starch
⅓ cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp fine sea salt
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cut into ½-inch cubes

For the pear filling

3 medium ripe pears (about 1 ½ lb), peeled, cored, and cut into ½-inch dice
3 tbsp honey
1 tbsp tapioca starch
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 9×9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two opposite sides to use as handles for lifting the bars out later.
2
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the rolled oats, rice flour, tapioca starch (the crust-and-crumble portion), granulated sugar, and fine sea salt until evenly combined. Scatter the cold butter cubes over the dry mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse, clumpy crumbs with some pea-sized pieces of butter remaining — do not work it until smooth.

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