Chocolate Pear Cake

You can cook all year round! In this wonderful chocolate muffin with pears, you can’t even immediately tell which is tastier — porous airy dough with a slight taste of cognac or juicy aromatic baked fruit. And in symbiosis, the result is mind-blowing in taste and appearance. Help yourself!
cook time: 1h 30 min
Elijah Stroud
Chocolate Pear Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

277
Calories
16g
Fat
26g
Carbs
5g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

Dough:

bitter chocolate 150 g
Butter 120 g
Sugar 120 g
Wheat flour 100 g
Cognac 3 tbsp
Eggs 4 pc
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 g

Filling:

Pears 3 pc

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make a pear cupcake? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take large, selected eggs. If the eggs are small, take 5 pieces. The butter should be at room temperature, so remove it from the refrigerator in advance. Take dark chocolate with at least 70% cocoa content. It goes best with cognac. If you still use dark chocolate, then add less sugar. Use premium flour.

Step 2

Step 2
Break the chocolate into pieces, place in a saucepan, pour in cognac and melt, stirring, in a water bath. Remove melted chocolate from heat and cool.

Step 3

Step 3
In a bowl, combine soft butter, sugar and beat everything until fluffy.

Step 4

Step 4
Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each until smooth.

Step 5

Step 5
After adding all the eggs, the mass will be slightly liquefied, but airy. Thatʼs how it should be.

Step 6

Step 6
Add the cooled melted chocolate and cognac and beat again.

Step 7

Step 7
The mixture will immediately acquire a beautiful buttery-brown color.

Step 8

Step 8
Add sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Mix with a mixer on low speed until smooth. If desired, you can add 1-2 tbsp. l. without a slide of cocoa.

Step 9

Step 9
You should get a smooth, homogeneous, aromatic and very tasty dough.

Step 10

Step 10
For the filling we will need fresh juicy and aromatic pears. The Conference variety is best suited, but regular seasonal pears will also work if they are not very hard and ripe. Wash the pears thoroughly. Even if the fruit has a hard, dense skin, it is not necessary to peel it, because inside the dough the pears practically boil and bake well, and the skin becomes very soft.

Step 11

Step 11
To stabilize the fruit, cut off the bottom of each pear.

Step 12

Step 12
Place the dough into a greased and floured rectangular cake pan. My form size is 30x10 centimeters. Press the pears into the dough at equal distances from each other. Place the cake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 40-45 minutes.

Step 13

Step 13
Cool the finished cake without removing it from the mold. Then place the cake on a plate, cut into pieces and serve. Bon appetit!

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