Vanilla shortcakes with maple roasted pears - 9Kitchen

Ingredients

• ¼ cup pure cane sugar
• ½ vanilla bean
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
• 4 tablespoons chilled coconut oil, divided
• 1 cup Califia Farms Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 4 ripe pears, such as Anjou, Bosc, or Bartlett, peeled, halved, cored, and cut into 1’ wedges
• Toasted silvered almonds (optional)