Small Chocolate Cakes in a Glass

Prep: 10min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 25min
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These small chocolate cakes in a glass are a child‑friendly winter dessert. Quickly baked and naturally sweetened with pears.

Ingredients

  • 1 ripe pear
  • 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
  • 85 g butter
  • 40 g raw cane sugar
  • 1 egg
  • Pinch Salt
  • 125 g spelt flour type 1050
  • 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder (strongly defatted)
  • pinch ground cinnamon
  • pinch ground cloves
  • Pinch Ground Cardamom
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 60 ml milk (3.5% fat)
  • 1 tbsp powdered sugar made from raw cane sugar

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Peel the pear, quarter it, remove the core and cut into small pieces. Mix with lemon juice.

  2. 2.

    Beat 70 g butter with sugar until fluffy, then fold in the egg and a pinch of salt.

  3. 3.

    Sift spelt flour with cocoa, spices, and baking powder; gradually stir in milk alternating with the butter mixture.

  4. 4.

    Fold the pear pieces into the batter, line glass jars with remaining butter, fill with batter. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (160 °C fan; gas: level 2–3) for about 25 minutes.

  5. 5.

    Remove from oven, let cool and serve dusted with powdered sugar.