Since I’m a big fan of seasonal fruits and vegetables, I took the opportunity to prepare a Chocolate Pear Cake with the beginning of pears’ season. It’s a combination loved by Italians and served during this season in restaurants and pastry shops.
Ingredients
- 2.25 cupsflour
- 3 spoonscocoa powder (Abundant spoons for extra taste)
- 3eggs
- 1 cupsugar
- 1/2 cupOil
- 1/2 cupmilk
- 2 teaspoonsbaking powder
- 1 pinchvanilla
- 1 pinchsalt
- 2pears (Or 3 small)
- q.s.chocolate chips (A handful for decoration)
Preparation of the Chocolate Pear Cake
First of all, preheat your oven at 180°C.
To start the preparation of the Chocolate Pear Cake, start by sifting the flour and the cocoa powder in a large bowl. Then, throw in the baking powder and the pinches of vanilla and salt.
In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs together with the sugar. Afterwards, add the oil and the milk and mix them well together.
Next, pour the liquid mixture onto the dry ingredients and whisk them together until incoprorated.
P.S.: I would advise you to use a hand mixer because the cake composition is thick. It would take you a lot of effort to mix it by hand with a whisk.
Once the cake mixture is ready, peel the pears and cut them vertically in order to obtain long pear-shaped slices.
Finally, transfer the mixture to a buttered and floured cake mold. Display the pear slices inside the cake as shown in the picture or as per your preferences.
To further decorate the cake, sprinkle on top of it some chocolate chips and bake at 180°C for 40 minutes or until a toothpick or a knife comes out clean.
I hope you enjoyed the Chocolate Pear Cake recipe.
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Thanks for sharing, this cake looks lovely 🙂
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I love chocolate and pear cake! It’s definitely an underrated flavour – great recipe, thanks for sharing x
I totally agree with you. Thank you 🙂
Pear is so underrated with chocolate!!
I agree with you !!
Wow this looks awesome, I love the whole pieces of pears.
I would also do it with apples or some other fruit..
Yeah, let me know how it goes if you try it with other fruits.
I never thought about chocolate and pear together! It looks delicious! Thank you for sharing x
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I’ve never had pear and chocolate together but this looks amazing! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
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Looks really delicious! I’ve never really baked with pears before. This recipe looks easy to follow, too.
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I do love a bit of chocolate cake!😍 Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you for your comment. If you like a plain chocolate cake take a look at this recipe: https://jessicakhater.altervista.org/vegan-chocolate-cake/
This looks great! We’re going to try it out with our daughter. We’ll check out your other great posts too!
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mmmm this looks delicious. Sadly, I don’t have any pears on hand, but I’ll remember this recipe next time I go grocery shopping. Chocolate and pears never occurred to me, you’re so creative haha. Thanks for sharing!
This combination is kind of famous in Italy and I love it. The even make croissants and tarts filled with chocolate and pears.
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Mm, this looks truly delicious! I love chocolate and pears in one bite; the pears usually stay so moist. Sadly, I do not have access to pears at the moment but I will be saving this recipe for later. 🙂
Yeah it’s not pears season yet but I hope you like it when you try it 🙂
I’ve never thought to mix pears and chocolate together, but I bet it would be absolutely delicious. I’m allergic to apples, so pears are a great substitution and I really enjoy them! I’ll have to test out this recipe sometime soon 🙂
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I would have never thought to pair chocolate and pear but this looks so moist and tasty. Also love the idea of cooking with seasonal ingredients.
Yes I try as much as I can to cook with seasonal and organic ingredients. Thank you for your comment 🙂