Chocolate Pear Cake
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Ingredients
- 6 pears
- 50 ml lemon juice
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 4 eggs
- 100 g whole cane sugar
- 200 g softened butter
- 250 g ground almonds
- 250 g wheat flour type 1050
- 0.5 sachet baking powder
- 100 ml milk (1.5% fat)
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 50 g chocolate shavings
Instructions
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1.
Peel, wash, core the pears and cut into wedges; drizzle with lemon juice.
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2.
Chop the chocolate finely. Whisk the eggs with sugar and butter until frothy. Gradually add almonds, flour, baking powder and milk. Stir in the chocolate and cocoa powder. Add a little more milk if the batter is too thick.
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3.
Line a baking tray with parchment paper, pour the batter onto it, smooth the surface and evenly top with pear wedges. Bake the chocolate pear cake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (180 °C fan; gas: level 3) for about 50–60 minutes, checking with a skewer.
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4.
Remove the cake from the oven, let it cool, cut into pieces and serve garnished with chocolate shavings.
