Chocolate and Pear Loaf Cake
Every slice of this Chocolate and Pear Cake has bursts of sweet pear, complementing the rich dark chocolate sponge perfectly. A gorgeous treat and a fantastic alternative to a basic chocolate loaf cake.
Servings 12 Slices
Calories 285kcal
Ingredients
- 2 Pears peeled cored and chopped into 1cm chunks
- 75 g Dark Chocolate Broken into squares - plus extra to drizzle - optional
- 170 g Caster Sugar
- 170 g butter or margarine
- 3 Eggs
- 140 g Self-raising flour plus 2 tablespoons extra to dust pears
- 30 g Cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees (fan assisted, 180 if not) and grease a cake tin.
- Once the chunks of pear are ready, lightly toss in a little flour, to limit sinking.
- Carefully melt the chocolate until smooth and leave to cool slightly.
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, mixing in one at a time.
- Sift in the flour and cocoa and fold until even.
- Gently stir through the melted chocolate.
- Add the pears and carefully fold through the mixture until they are evenly distributed.
- Pour the mix into your cake tin and spread evenly.
- Bake for around 1 hour, testing to see if it is cooked by inserting a skewer into the centre, if cooked it will come out clean.
- Leave in the tin to cool for 10 minutes.
- Tip onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- If adding drizzle, carefully melt a few more squares of dark chocolate and use either a spoon or piping bag to roughly drizzle over the top of the cake.