Not too salty like many similar recipes. Good comfort food for a cold day or pot luck brunch.

Fun for the kiddos on Christmas morning and not too hard to do.

Easy and Fun!

I made the cookies exactly according to the recipe, but mine were done after 12 minutes and I added cream cheese icing after they cooled a bit. I agree with the others who say these cookies have an odd, spongey, cake-like consistency. It definitely helps both the appearance and the taste to drizzle them with cream cheese icing. The flavor of the cookies is good (I used Duncan-Hines spice cake mix). But I think it is worth it to go to a little more trouble with more ingredients to make a better, more "cookie-like" cookie. I probably wouldn't make these again, but I'm sure my family will enjoy eating this batch, especially with the addition of the icing. UPDATE: the cookies got worse as they cooled down and became more spongey. Not impressed AT ALL. Would not recommend.

This was pretty good. I sliced and boiled two over-ripe pears and then drained them so the pie wouldn't be too watery. I then added a drained can of pears to supplement the number of pears. I substituted vanilla extract for almond extract and added a Tbsp. of cinnamon. I mixed all the filling ingredients together and baked at 375 for 36 min and it was cooked perfectly. The texture is nice, firm, and easy to cut. The pie doesn't have a strong enough "pear" taste to suit me, but overall, it was good and easy.