Sophisticated in appearance, not in ingredients.

Pears with Chantilly Cream

Ingredients: Canned pear halves, Cool Whip, vanilla pudding, almond extract.

I will leave it up to you to decide how much of this dessert to make, but think along the lines of three pear halves per person. Drain the pears, and arrange them in a pretty dish. The chantilly cream is really easy....your vanilla pudding (get a 4 pack...it works better than making the instant pudding yourself) to Cool Whip ratio should be 7:4 (example = 14 ounces of pudding, 8 ounces of Cool Whip) and
add almond extract to taste (with 14 oz. of vanilla pudding, you should add about 1 tsp. almond extract).

Dollop cream onto pears, and GARNISH with slivered almonds and fresh raspberries. This is important, because it takes the dessert from drab to fab. Other seasonal berries are acceptable, but not preferred.

This dessert impresses everyone and it takes about 5 minutes to concoct.