Pear Puree with Optional Cinnamon is right up there with Apple Puree or Banana Puree as a yummy first fruit to offer baby when they start solid foods. So easy to make and great for freezing, you can serve this pear baby food on its own or mix it with cereal, natural yoghurt or other fruits and vegetables for your own favoured combinations. The addition of cinnamon here gives a lovely warmth to the natural sweetness of pears.
➡️ IS BABY NEW TO SOLID FOODS? See my Complete Guide to Baby Purees for helpful information on when to start weaning, what foods to try, texture progression and safe food introduction.
Ingredients in Pear Puree with Cinnamon
This is a super simple pear puree recipe for starting solids, needing just one or two ingredients:
Fresh pears – I use Packham pears, a common Australian variety. Any type of pear will work though – Bosc, Anjou or Bartlett pear. Choose what’s in season and looks fresh.
Often the pears I buy aren’t quite ripe, and so to ripen them I leave them in the fruit bowl on the kitchen bench for a couple of days until they soften. This improves the juiciness and flavour, it’s worth the wait! If impatient, you can put them in a paper bag with a banana to speed up the process.
Spice – I’ve added cinnamon as an optional ingredient in this simple recipe, but it’s up to you to include or leave out.
How to make Pear Puree
Single-ingredient purees (even if adding the optional spice!) are so easy to make, and great to start with if you’re not sure about making your own baby food.
Scroll down to the recipe card below, to find exact ingredient amounts and full detailed steps for both regular and thermo cooker methods.
Step 1: As with most fruit and vegetables for homemade baby purees, I steam the pears using a steamer basket on the stovetop, before blending.
Remember that the amount of time needed to steam the pear will vary, depending on how ripe they are, and how small you’ve chopped the pear pieces. When you’re done steaming, just check that you’ve cooked the pears until soft. Avoid overcooking – I find it best with pears to check and increase cooking time if needed, rather than set a longer cook time to begin with.
Step 2: Once the pears are cooked, puree them, with or without the cinnamon spice. Of course, the easiest way to blend to a puree is by using an all-in-one appliance, baby food maker, food processor or immersion blender but you can also get a workout with a potato masher or seive!
Serving
In the first couple of weeks of starting solids, I served this homemade puree either on its own or with baby cereal. I then switched to serving it with Weet-Bix and milk or yoghurt once I’d safely introduced those allergens.
I also added my nut and seed mix for baby every so often to keep up Baby LJ’s exposure to nut and seed allergens, as per the Australian National Allergy Council recommendations [1].
First stage weaning or second stage weaning? This pear puree recipe is ideal for first foods, so both Stage 1 (around 6 months of age) and Stage 2 (around 6-9 months) weaning.
For first stage/younger babies, try offering for the first time without the cinnamon, and with a very smooth texture by mixing through a little cooled boiled water, formula milk or expressed breast milk immediately before serving.
For second stage weaning/older babies, add the cinnamon or other spice and increase the texture by blending/pureeing for less time.
The great thing about homemade baby food is that as baby grows and develops, you can adjust the texture from runny/smooth purees to chunkier mashed foods, to serving appropriately chopped soft finger food as you would for the family.
Baby food combinations
Homemade Pear Puree is perfect to combine with other first foods, to make your own baby food combinations. Make this puree without the spice, along with other single-ingredient puree recipes like this pureed sweet potatoes (with optional sumac) or pureed carrot (with optional ginger). You can then mix the flavours together to create your own baby purees.
Storing
This Pear Puree can be stored in the fridge for up to 2 days, or frozen for up to 1 month.
It can be really useful when baby first starts solid foods to freeze purees in an ice-cube tray, and then when frozen transfer to a labelled freezer bag.
First fruits are really versatile – mix and match the frozen cubes as your growing baby progresses with flavour combinations. It’s great way to gradually introduce them to new foods alongside their favourite fruits and vegetables!
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Happy pureeing!
Chloe x
Pear Puree with Optional Cinnamon
Category: PuréeIngredients
- 500 ml water
- 2 ripe pears peeled, cored and roughly chopped
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
Instructions
- Place a steamer basket over a pot with 500 ml water (making sure the water level is below the basket so the pear won’t be submerged). Over high heat on the stovetop, bring the water to a boil. Add 2 ripe pears to the steamer basket. Cover with a tight-fitting lid, and reduce the heat to a simmer. Steam for 10 minutes or until pears are tender.
- In a food processor or with a hand blender, blend steamed pear together with 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (if using), until you are happy with the consistency (Note 1).
Thermomix Instructions
- Put 2 ripe pears into the simmering basket.
- Pour 500 ml water into the mixing bowl. Insert the simmering basket and cook for 10 minutes, Varoma, speed 2, MC on. Remove the simmering basket, and discard the liquid.
- Put the pear into the mixing bowl. If using, add 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon. Chop for 15 seconds, speed 7, MC on, making sure to increase the speed gradually to avoid the pear immediately sticking to the sides of the mixing bowl. Scrape down the mixing bowl and lid, and repeat until you are happy with the consistency (Note 1).
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Information
References
[1] Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA). (2026). Infant feeding and allergy prevention – Fast facts. Retrieved 2 March 2026 from https://preventallergies.org.au/resources/library/ascia-guidelines-for-infant-feeding-for-food-allergy-prevention/.
One Response
Such a wonderful, easy, tasty recipe designed for baby to enjoy eating and not become fussy with food.