Chocolate and pear cake
Today we're making a chocolate and pear cake. You can experiment with the different pear varieties available throughout the year and you'll be surprised at how the flavor changes. It's a moist cake, and the fruit bakes perfectly in the time I've indicated. It also goes well with a splash of your favorite liqueur.
Ingredients · Servings 6
- 210 g of whole milk
- 40g of Valor unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 eggs
- 300 g of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of natural yogurt
- 100g of extra virgin olive oil of a mild variety
- 200g of pastry flour
- 8 g of yeast
- 3 medium pears
Method · 50 min
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC, top and bottom heat.
- Put the milk in a bowl and add the cocoa. Mix it well.
- Put the eggs and sugar in another bowl and beat for 5 minutes with an electric mixer. Stir in the 2 tablespoons of yogurt. Mix.
- Add the oil and the cocoa and milk mixture. Stir everything well.
- Add the sifted flour and baking powder. Mix again with a spatula, just until everything is well combined.
- Peel the pears, leaving the stem on.
- Put the dough in the molds and place the pears in the center of each one.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. Let cool and serve.
Chocolate and pear cake
You will need
- 3 round molds of 12 cm in diameter or one round mold of 24 cm
