Chocolate Pear Cake
(5)
1 hour 20 minutes
This cake is easy to prepare but very rich and tasty. If you like, dust it with icing sugar or serve with ice cream.
Carmencita
7 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1 cup milk
- 180g cake flour
- 8g baking powder
- 60g cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons boiling water
- 3 pears
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 110g butter, softened
- 150g sugar
- 2 eggs
- pinch salt
- To decorate
- 15g butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
Preparation:30min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour20min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour a 25cm cake tin and line the bottom with baking paper.
- Cut the vanilla bean in half and place with the milk in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer, remove from heat, cover and let cool. Remove the seeds from the bean and stir into the milk.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder. Place the cocoa in a cup and stir in the two tablespoons boiling water. Cut the pears into 4 segments each and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Beat butter with sugar until light. Beat in eggs one at a time, then add salt, cocoa and milk. Mix well. Add the flour and baking powder. Mix quickly until just combined.
- Pour the batter into the cake tin and decorate the top with the slices of pear.
- In a saucepan, combine butter, sugar and cinnamon and brush over the pears. Bake 1 hour.
- Remove from the oven, let rest 10 minutes then cool on a wire rack.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews in English (1)
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This is a very nice cake. Fairly easy to make. There was just one problem in that the measurement for boiling water (2 tablespoons) hardly even wets the cocoa. I had to add 10 tablespoons of water to get a smooth paste but that was still a very thick paste. I think that novice cooks might have trouble with this part of the recipe - 11 Sep 2012 (Review from Allrecipes UK & Ireland)