AMIEs CHOCOLATE and PEAR CAKE. Great recipe for AMIEs CHOCOLATE and PEAR CAKE. I make this cake in a loaf tin, as it used to be made for our "merenda" afternoon tea. An easy to make, brandy chocolate and pear moist cake is one of the most delicious fruit and chocolate desserts that I've ever tried!
Your family will love this treat! Softens the chocolate and butter a "bagnomaria". Add the chocolate cream and stir until well combined. You can have AMIEs CHOCOLATE and PEAR CAKE using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of AMIEs CHOCOLATE and PEAR CAKE
- It’s 250 grams of firm ripe pears, peeled and cut into 1cm pieces.
- It’s 75 grams of bitter chocolate, 70% cocoa solids broken into small pieces.
- It’s 3 of egg yolks, at room temperature, separated.
- It’s 2 of egg whites, at room temperature, separated.
- Prepare 100 grams of icing sugar, sifted.
- You need 75 grams of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
- You need 120 grams of plain flour or Italian 00 flour.
- Prepare 2 pinch of ground cinnamon.
- It’s 1 pinch of of salt.
- It’s 1 of unsalted butter and dried breadcrumbs for the tin.
- It’s 1 of icing sugar, to decorate.
Chocolate Pear Cake a moist easy to make Cake Recipe. Chocolate Cake topped with sliced pears and sprinkled with chocolate chips. The perfect breakfast, tea or dessert cake. We used to have a pear tree and then we didn't.
AMIEs CHOCOLATE and PEAR CAKE step by step
- Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and melt it in microwave. Remove from the microwave. Set aside keeping it in a warm place..
- Heat the oven to 180°C..
- Beat the butter until really soft, add the icing sugar while beating constantly until light and pale yellow..
- Add the 3 egg yolks, cinnamon, salt and melted chocolate. Mix until well blended..
- Whisk the 2 egg whites until stiff. Fold into the mixture by spoons, alternating with spoonfuls of flour. Fold lightly..
- Mix lightly the pear pieces into the mixture..
- Butter a 23cm loaf tin, sprinkle the dried breadcrumbs. Shake the tin upside down so the crumbs cover all the buttered surface. Throw away the excess the crumbs..
- Pour in the cake mixture into the tin. Bake for about 50 minutes until the cake is done. It must be quite springy to touch and it must shrunk from the sides of the tin..
- Remove from the oven, loosen the cake from the tin, put into a wire rack and leave the cake to cool. Sprinkle with sifted icing sugar before serving..
- Serve, share and enjoy. Perfect for our afternoon tea..
If I remember correctly the poor thing got hit by lightening. As a result, the chocolate and pears really are pronounced. The cake is drenched in chocolate ganache and topped with a pear glaze made from the poaching liquid. If you find cake decorating to be a bit intimidating then check out my How to Decorate a Cake post, it has lots of helpful tips and a full how to video. Scented with the warmth of cardamom, coffee and a burst of chocolate flavor this cake is filled with chunks of juicy pears and simply dusted with flaked salt and powdered sugar.
