Chocolate Pear Crisp

This delicious pud is lovely and rich, you'd never guess it contains zero saturated fat!

• Cooking Time Prep 10 mins
  Cook 45 mins
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 4

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  140

• Protein

  2g

• Carbs

  26g

• Fat

  4g

• Saturates

  0g

• Fibre

  2g

• Sugar

  25g

• Salt

  0.03g

Ingredients

• 3 ripe pears
• juice ½ lemon
• 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar
• 4 tsp Poire William liqueur or cognac (optional)
• For the topping
• 50g icing sugar
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 25g ground almonds
• 1 egg white

Directions

1. Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Chop the pears into small pieces and put in a pan with the lemon juice and sugar. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook for 10 mins. Uncover, then cook for 8-10 mins more until the juices thicken up. Spoon into 4 x 150ml ramekins and add a teaspoon of liqueur to each, if using.
2. For the topping, sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl, then stir in the almonds. Whisk the egg white until stiff, then fold into the dry ingredients. Spoon over the pears and shake the ramekins to level the mixture. Bake for 20-25 mins until the topping is firm to the touch. Serve warm or cold.

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