Gateau Poire chocolat (Cake de peras y chocolate)

Who love pears and chocolat?? well this is your cake or..dessert, always I love this combo, when I was little my favorite dessert was chocolate pears cream is like a chocolate pudding with pears, absolutely delicious.
And love this cake too!

Source: Amuses bouche
A beautiful french blog.

Ingredients

4 small pears
150 g dark chocolate
50 ml cream 
120 g butter(room temperature)
120 g sugar
4 eggs
80 grams ground almonds
(or almonds flour)
60 grams all purpose flour
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder 
1 pinch of salt

Chocolate frosting

80 grams dark chocolate
80 grams whole cream

Method

Put the chocolate to melt with cream in microwaves (in medium for not burn the chocolate)
Look and stir when is like cream is ready.

Beat butter with sugar in a bowl add eggs one at a time and beat well after each.
Stir in the melted chocolate. Mix the ground almonds, flour cocoa, baking powder and salt.
Mix well to avoid lumps.
Put parchment paper into a molld cake (about 28 cm long)
Put some chocolate cream and put the whole peeled pears and fill with remained chocolate cream.
Pears will exceed it's normal.
Preheat oven at 180 °c. and bake for about 40 minutes. When be ready let about 15 minutes before unmold and helping you with parchment paper.
Let cool on a rack.

Make the frosting
Heat the cream by a while (not boil) and add the chocolate in pieces. Stir. When the chocolate is mooth pour over the cake 
emphasizing the gap created between the pears and pear cake. 
Allow the chocolate to set.
Enjoy at room temperature.  Délicieux!

Print recipe here


EN ESPAÑOL

Cake de peras y chocolate

Aunque estamos en Primavera casi ya en Verano aún se ven buenas peras, despues llega tanta fruta que las peras quedan por ahí o no se encuentran.
Este cake es delicioso porque es un cake de chocolate y con peras, me encanta la mezcla peras y chocolate.

Ingredientes

150 gramos de chocolate en barra
50 ml de crema espesa
120 gramos de mantequilla
120 gramos de azucar
4 huevos
80 gramos de almendras molidas
60 gramos de harina sin polvos
1 cucharada de cocoa en polvo sin azucar
1 cucharadita de polvos de hornear
1 pizca de sal

Cubierta de chocolate
80 gramos de chocolate en barra
80 gramos de crema

Preparación