This chocolate pear cake became soft and moist after keeping it at room temperature for a day or two and the soft texture of the pear cubes inside the cake is delicious with every bite
Author Ann Low
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 45 minutesmins
Total Time 1 hourhr
Course Afternoon tea, Breakfast
Cuisine International
Difficulty Easy
Servings 8
Ingredients
180gcake flour/plain flour
50gcocoa powder - valrhorna cocoa powder
1tspbaking powder
125gbutter - soft to touch
150gbrown sugar - or caster sugar
2largeeggs
1tspvanilla extract
3pears - peeled & corded, diced
2pears - sliced, for topping
Instructions
Combine cake flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in a bowl, mix well and set aside. Grease a 8 inch removable cake pan, lined and grease bottom and sides.
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy at medium speed.
Lower speed, add eggs one at a time, until mixture incorporating the first before adding the second.
Sieve the flour mixture into the egg batter, followed by diced pears and gently fold well with a rubber spatula with adding the milk a bit at a time.
Pour batter mixture into cake pan, with sliced pear on top.
Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees C for about 45 minutes or skewer inserted comes out clean.
Notes
Please keep in mind that all oven temperatures and baking time varies