Description
Enjoy this fantastic pear and chocolate pie recipe from Valentina Mariani.
Ingredients
Scale
- 85 gms butter + 1 table spoon to grease the tin
- 85 gms caster sugar + 1 table spoon to coat the tin
- 85 gms dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- 1 table spoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 85 gms almond meal
- 3 very ripe pears, peeled, cored and quartered
- Icing sugar, for dusting
Instructions
- Cut a circle of baking paper to fit the base of your spring form pan. Brush the inside of the pan with 1 tbsp of melted butter, then line the base with the baking paper and brush it with more butter. Add 1 tbsp of caster sugar, swirl it around to coat the pan everywhere and remove any excess.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler. When ready, remove it from the heat.
- Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form and keep them aside.
- Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until pale. Add the melted chocolate and almond meal and mix until well combined.
- Add the egg whites little by little and gently incorporate them to the mixture.
- Pour the mixture in the pan and level it. Arrange the pears over the mixture, cut side down.
- Bake in a pre heated oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes or until the pears are soft and the cake is cooked through.
- Let it cool down before unmoulding it. When completely cool, dust it with icing sugar.
- Category: Baking