Inevitably, the batter shrank away from the pears as the cake cooled after baking. This detracted a bit from the looks, but not the taste of the cake. I'm glad I added the extra chocolate chunks - it really boosted the chocolate content (25g of cocoa in this amount of cake batter is not a lot) and flavour.
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Pear, Chocolate and Hazelnut Cake
Inevitably, the batter shrank away from the pears as the cake cooled after baking. This detracted a bit from the looks, but not the taste of the cake. I'm glad I added the extra chocolate chunks - it really boosted the chocolate content (25g of cocoa in this amount of cake batter is not a lot) and flavour.
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Paul Hollywood always whinges about a lack of flavour in pears in Bake Off! But this has inspired me to go pick some of the pears on our tree.
I think, in general, that Paul has a fair point, but here the pears are in large pieces and one layer, so you can still taste them!
oooh, pears and chocolate... I love this combo. I always pan fry my pears in butter first to bring out the flavour. lovely!
You'd think the chocolate would make up for lack of pear flavour, but as you say Suelle 25g of cocoa is not going to do that. Your hazelnut addition was inspired though. Our hazels were so laden this year, we were delighted, until we found one day not a single one left on any of the trees. Not squirrels but pesky birds :(
One of the reasons that I love this time of year is ripe pears and combine them with chocolate and I'm very, very happy. Sounds lovely. I've never thought that pears lack flavour - maybe I'm just very pear-sensitive.
Love the combination of pears and chocolate; they go so well together. Like the addition of hazelnuts.
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