Chocolate Pear Cakes with Cocoa Sauce

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Chocolate Pear Cakes with Cocoa Sauce

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Jan's Chocolate Pear Cakes with Cocoa Sauce

Recipe.

Poach 12 pears in 3 cups water with a tsp Vanilla bean paste for around 10 minutes.
Keep the water and add 1/3 cup of Cocoa powder. Whisk in and reduce.
Whisk together 2 eggs, 100 ml sour cream,80ml oil, 20g melted butter, 120g light brown sugar until just mixed.
Then whisk in 200g melted dark Chocolate.
Sift together 120g plain flour, 35g cocoa powder, 1 tsp baking powdewr, 1/2 tsp carb soda, add 1/2 tsp salt and 40g ground almonds and fold gently into mix.
Spoon batter equally among 2 x 6 hole buttered muffin pans.
Push a pear down into each one and cook for 20-25 minutes at 170Celsisus
Let cool in pans before trying to remove.
Serve with sauce and ice cream.


Poached pears

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Reducing the sauce - water from poaching pears with vanilla plus 1/3 cup cocoa powder

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Putting the Pears in place

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In the Hark

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Ready to eat

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Yummm

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