Pears with ice cream and hot chocolate sauce
4 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 gram bar plain chocolate | |
| 50 | grams | Unsalted butter |
| 2 | tablespoons | Light muscovado sugar |
| 2 | tablespoons | Golden syrup |
| 150 | millilitres | Double cream |
| 50 | grams | Blanched hazelnuts |
| 1 | 400 gram can pear halves in natural juice; drained | |
| 1 | 500 millilit vanilla ice cream; (good quality) | |
Directions
1 Heat a small frying pan. Break up the chocolate into squares and place in a small pan with the butter, sugar, golden syrup and cream. Cook over a low heat, stirring occasionally until smooth and shiny.
2 Roughly chop the hazelnuts and add to the heated frying pan. Cook for a minute or so until toasted, tossing occasionally. Slice up the pears.
3 Scoop out two balls of ice cream from the tub (Brian only does one) and arrange in a glass serving dish with some pear slices. Pour over some sauce and scatter the nuts on top to serve.
TIP This chocolate sauce works well as a fondue. Dip in chunks of fresh fruit ie melon, strawberries, pineapple, mango and marshmallows (pierced onto skewers or cocktail sticks).
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