Pear and chocolate puddings
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 100g butter, plus a little for the tins
- 160g light muscovado sugar
- 3 eggs
- 60g plain flour
- 30g cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 55g ground almonds
- 60ml milk
- 6 small pears, very ripe
- to serve pouring cream
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter 6 × 250ml ramekins. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa, baking powder, ground almonds and milk together.
- STEP 2
Peel the pears and cut off the bottoms so that they will stand with a decent amount of height above the rims of the ramekins. Chop the bottom parts and fold into the chocolate mixture. Divide the mixture between the ramekins until they are two-thirds full, then push the tops of the pears in.
- STEP 3
Bake for 30 minutes or until the pudding mix is puffed around the pears. Serve with cream.
