Chocolate Cake with Pears
1 hour 10 minutes
A chocolate and pear upside down cake with a heavenly aroma. It's perfect for an autumn evening with some ice cream.
Nyusha
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 300g butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 100g chocolate, grated
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
- 3 pears
- 2 tablespoons butter, extra
- 2 tablespoons sugar, extra
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour10min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and grease a round cake tin.
- Beat butter and sugar together then beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in the honey.
- Sift the flour together with the baking powder. To the eggs add grated chocolate, cocoa, walnuts and mix. Gradually mix in flour.
- Thinly slice the pears. In a frypan melt extra 2 tablespoons butter and saute the pears for a few minutes. Sprinkle with sugar.
- Arrange the pears in the cake tin and pour the batter on top. Bake 50 minutes. Let cool and invert on a plate.
