Pear Hazelnut & Chocolate Cake

Moist, fruity pear, hazelnut and chocolate cake - try it warm with cream as a teatime treat

• Cooking Time Prep 30 mins - 40 mins
  Cook 50 mins - 1 hr
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Cuts into 8 slices

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  470

• Protein

  6g

• Carbs

  47g

• Fat

  30g

• Saturates

  14g

• Fibre

  3g

• Sugar

  18g

• Salt

  0.5g

Ingredients

• 100g blanched hazelnuts
• 140g self-raising flour
• 175g butter, cut into small pieces
• 140g golden caster sugar
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 5 small, ripe Conference pears
• 50g dark chocolate, chopped into small chunks
• 2 tbsp apricot jam

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to fan 140C/ conventional 160C/gas 3. Butter and line the base of a 20cm round cake tin. Grind the hazelnuts in a food processor until fairly fine. Add the flour and mix briefly. Add the butter and pulse until it forms crumbs. Add the sugar and eggs and mix briefly. Peel, core and chop two of the pears. Stir the pears and chocolate lightly into the cake mixture.
2. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Peel, core and slice the remaining pears and scatter over the top of the cake. Press down lightly and bake for 50-60 minutes, until firm to the touch. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out and cool on wire rack. Warm the jam and brush over the top. Serve warm or cold.

Categories: Cakes & Baking