Pear cake (gateau aux poires belle helene)
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Butter or margarine; softened |
| 2½ | cup | Flour; all-purpose |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 4 | Squares baking chocolate; unsweetened, melted | |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | cup | Milk |
| 1 | can | Pear halves; rinsed and drained |
| ⅓ | cup | Pecan halves |
Directions
Preheat the oven at 350F.
Using a lectric mixer, cream the butter. Add the flour et sugar et using low speed mix well, until the mix seems like sand. reserve ⅓ cup of this mixture.
Add to the remaining mixture, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate, the egg and milk. Mix just to insure that everything is mix.
Spread ⅓ of the chocolate mixture into a 9" spring pan, greased. Dispose onto the mixture the pear in circle, the cut side down. Cover the prears with the remainder of the chocolate mixtrue. Sprinkle the mixture the ⅓ cup mixture that was reserved and sprinkle over the pecans.
Bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle come out clean
Recipe by: Baker's Best chocolate cookbook Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Andre Beaulieu <abeaul@...> on Apr 13, 1998