Always perfect combination, isn't it? Pears and chocolate.
J wanted a cake. Right! For the first time when you hear that you can not use eggs or butter in your kitchen, and you used them a lot before, it makes it evan hard to comprehend how anything sweet is going to come out of the oven?! OK, I may be slightly exaggerating, because baked apples with raisins are yummy.
This time though no wheat as well. OK, let's do it!
Got some juicy conference pears in the market and straight away I new what I was going to make, but did not know how it would taste.
PEAR & CHOCOLATE SHORTBREAD
Ingredients:
Dough:
50g rye flour;
150g buckwheat flour;
40g potato flour [starch];
* all above to replace wheat flour
110g oat flakes;
120g golden caster sugar;
125g lard;
4 tbsp thick coconut milk;
3 tbsp cold water
3- 4 conference pears
Chocolate number 4:
200g cocoa butter;
65g dark cocoa powder;
20g chestnut flour;
40g lucuma powder;
100g chopped dates;
sugar sirup [ * 8 tbsp golden caster or brown sugar dissolved in 3-4 tbsp hot water]
1. Into a big bowl put all the ingredients starting with: flours, oats, sugar, lard and then coconut milk and water. With a knife start cutting=mixing until you get really small pieces of lard. Now use your hand and quickly combine all together and make a ball. Put it in the fridge for about 1/2 hour.
2. Spread it into your baking tray - I used my hands and roughly placed the dough.
3. Cut pears into big chunks and arrange them on the dough. Bake for about 40 minutes - gas mark 5 [190°C] until sides of the cake will get golden-brown.
4. When the cake is baking make chocolate like here or, simply: melt cocoa butter, add sugar sirup and all other ingredients and mix until combined- chocolate READY :-)
5. Pour chocolate over a baked cake.
6. I still had some chocolate left, so put them into paper muffin cases and left it to solidify.
J always welcomes this sort of surprises ;-)
7. Leave it for chocolate to set - couple of hours if the cake is cooled already.
8. Cut in pieces and enjoy! Yum, yum, yum....
And if you are afraid of your waistline or want to share it with your friends [REALLY? WOULD YUO DO THAT AFTER TASTING IT?!] pack it in some paper and freeze or chill it for later.
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