This spiced pear butter from the Yummy Bites app is a no-cook blend: drained canned pears, 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and 1/8 teaspoon of ground allspice, blended until completely smooth. There's no simmering or reducing, so it isn't the thick, cooked-down kind of pear butter made as a preserve.

Why it's called butter

"Butter" refers to the smooth, buttery consistency you blend toward, not an ingredient. The recipe contains no dairy butter or milk.

About the can

The recipe calls for one 15 oz can of pears, drained. That 15 oz is the can size, not the weight of the drained fruit or the amount the recipe makes. The app doesn't give a yield, so we haven't listed one.

The recipe also doesn't specify what the pears are packed in or which brand to use, and canned pears vary in both packing liquid and ingredient list. That's why we don't describe this recipe as unsweetened or as having no added sugar. Read the ingredient list on the can you buy; our guide to reading baby food labels may help. We haven't reviewed any particular product.

Just three ingredients

Everything that goes into the blender is in the ingredient list. Allspice is a single spice, not a "mixed spice" blend, so look for a jar labeled ground allspice; the recipe uses ground spices, not whole ones. Nothing else is added: no water or can liquid, no milk, no sweetener, and no fresh pear in place of canned.

Because the method is blending only, the recipe has no cook time, and the app doesn't specify a blending time either. Use a high-speed blender or food processor, and keep pulsing and blending until the mixture is completely smooth.

Offering it

The app labels this recipe for 6 months and up, which is a general guide rather than readiness clearance for your child. The UK's NHS guidance on first solid foods gives around 6 months as the general time to start, alongside signs of developmental readiness, and encourages letting babies feed themselves at their own pace while sitting upright with an adult watching.

An appropriate spoon that you've preloaded and handed over lets your baby decide how much and how fast. Our post on baby self-feeding spoons has more on that approach. There's no fixed portion for this recipe. For pears as a food more generally, see our pear page.

Allergens

The recipe's allergen list is empty because pears, cinnamon, and allspice aren't among the nine major food allergens identified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That isn't an allergy-free guarantee. The FDA notes that other foods can also cause allergic reactions, and the list is based on the recipe's ingredients, not on what's in your particular can or spice jars, so read those labels too. If your baby already has a food allergy or eczema, or allergies run in the family, the NHS page on food allergies in babies advises getting professional advice about introducing foods.

How this recipe was put together

This is an adaptation of the Spiced Pear Butter recipe in the Yummy Bites app. The quantities and method come from the app, not from health guidance, and the 5-minute prep time is the app's estimate rather than a measured kitchen test. The app doesn't say how long the blend keeps, so this page doesn't give storage guidance, and it isn't a canning recipe. The page was written with AI, drawing on an AI editorial review of the linked public sources; it hasn't been kitchen-tested by our team or reviewed by a clinician. The photo is an AI-generated illustration and can't show texture, temperature, the amount of pear or spice, or whether this food suits your child.

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