Easy Pear Custard Pie - Mini, Crustless & Healthy

Easy and healthy Pear Custard Pie made with protein powder for sweetness and no added sugar! A crustless baked custard pie made in crème brulée dishes perfect for your party's tart stand.

This crustless custard tart or custard pie is the first pear dessert recipe I've made, and definitely isn't going to be the last.

The flavor of the pear custard and nutmeg goes so well together, I wanted a second one of these mini desserts! My husband actually went for it too.

No guilt with this easy baked pear custard pie though, since it has no added sugar, and is low fat and high protein too!

Ingredients for Healthy and Easy Pear Custard Pie 

This single serve and easy pear custard pie is made with clean ingredients like whole wheat pastry flour, and has no added sugar either. Healthy pear custard pie uses protein powder for sweetness instead!

• Pear
• Vanilla Protein Powder for healthy, high protein protein pear pie that's also sugar free. I used Quest Nutrition Vanilla Milkshake whey-casein protein powder for this mug cake.
• Unflavored Whey-Casein Protein Powder to replace some of the flour and make a high protein low calorie custard tart.
  I recommend the Multi-purpose mix protein powder from Quest Nutrition.
• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
• Eggs
• Unsweetened Almond Milk
• Nutmeg

If you need to add more sweetness, Stevia Powder or Zero Calorie Sugar Substitute; I use Lakanto, to keep this pear dessert sugar free; (code HAYLSKITCHEN for a discount here too)

How to make Pear Custard Pie

This crustless pear custard pie is super easy to make and only takes one bowl and about 10 minutes of effort!

1. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl - vanilla and unflavored protein powders, flour and nutmeg.

2. Add in the eggs and milk and whisk.
   The batter should be thick, but pourable. Add more milk if too thick, a bit of coconut flour if too runny.

3. Add half of the sliced pears and mix.
   
4. Pour the batter into the crème brulée dishes, top with more pears and a sprinkle of nutmeg.
   
5. Bake at 350°F for about 18-20 minutes until the top is set and a tester inserted into the middle comes out mostly clean.

Tips to make Bake Pear Custard with Protein Powder

This baked pear custard with protein powder is a simple recipe and made as minis to serve a crowd, but make sure you do all of this stuff to get is perfect.

• Grease the dishes! You want the crustless pear pies to come off easily.

• Don't over-mix the batter!
  Make sure you gently stir the wet and dry to combine them.
  If you over-mix it, protein powder will make your baked pear custard tart too dense and gummy.

• Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I'd recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have a healthy pear custard dessert.

• Don't overbake the this pear dessert. The top will should be cooked. It might look slightly soft, but will harden when it cools a bit.
  

Alternates for this Healthy Pear Custard Tart

I recommend making this low calorie, healthy and low sugar pear custard tart with the protein powder and ingredients listed since it gives the best results.

If you need other options, here's some alternatives for a healthy blood orange cake for one:

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour, with the same amount by weight, not cups.
• Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour, and reduce milk to about ½ - ⅔ cup (add little at a time)
• Almond Milk: Any other milk

More Single Serving High Protein Fruit Dresserts Recipes

• Healthy Single Serve Peach Crisp in a Microwave
• Protein Apple Cobbler - Single Serve
• Blood Orange Protein Cake for One
• Protein Blueberry Cobbler - Single Serve
• Protein Banana Pudding Cake for One