Name: Chocolate & pear cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: Cuts into 10 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250g pack butter melted, plus a little extra for the tin; 250g caster sugar; 200g self-raising flour; 50g wholemeal flour; 100g ground almond; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 tsp mixed spice; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; good grating nutmeg; 50g whole hazelnut finely chopped; 50g whole almond with skins on, finely chopped; 50g pistachio finely chopped; 50g macadamia nut finely chopped; 100g dark chocolate finely chopped, or dark chocolate chips; 3 large eggs beaten; 1 tsp almond extract; 2 pears peeled, cored and diced; 300ml pot soured cream; 100g dark chocolate broken into chunks; 100g milk chocolate broken into chunks

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Chocolate & pear cake

Chocolate & pear cake

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Cuts into 10 slices

Easy

Prep: 45 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 5 mins

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A decadent sponge with moist pears and crunchy nuts, topped with a soured cream and dark chocolate frosting

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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250g pack butter

melted, plus a little extra for the tin
250g caster sugar
200g self-raising flour
50g wholemeal flour
100g ground almond
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
good grating nutmeg
50g whole hazelnut

finely chopped
50g whole almond

with skins on, finely chopped
50g pistachio

finely chopped
50g macadamia nut

finely chopped
100g dark chocolate

finely chopped, or dark chocolate chips
3 large eggs

beaten
1 tsp almond extract
2 pears

peeled, cored and diced

For the icing

300ml pot soured cream
100g dark chocolate

broken into chunks
100g milk chocolate

broken into chunks

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal806
fat55g
saturates24g
carbs65g
sugars48g
fibre5g
protein13g
salt0.8g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line the base and sides of a deep, 20cm loose-bottomed round cake tin. Mix the sugar, flours, ground almonds, baking powder and spices in a big bowl. Mix together the chopped nuts. Set aside 2 heaped tbsp of them for decoration and stir the rest into the dry ingredients with the chopped chocolate or chips. Whisk together the melted butter, eggs and almond extract.
step 2

Tip the butter mixture into the dry ingredients and stir thoroughly to combine, then fold in the diced pear. Scrape the mixture into the tin and bake for 45 mins, then cover with foil and bake for 20 mins more until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool in the tin overnight.
step 3

For the icing, put the soured cream and chocolate chunks in a small pan. Heat very gently, stirring, until melted. Chill until spreadable (overnight is fine).
step 4

Remove the cake from the tin, spread over the icing and scatter with the reserved nuts.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2012

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