Pear and Chocolate Pudding Pots Recipe

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Pear and chocolate is a combination from heavy. These delicious cake pots are a great dessert and will impress your friends, even though they are simple to make.

Serves: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

 

INGREDIENTS:

3 oz butter
3 oz caster sugar
2 eggs
1 oz cocoa
3 oz all purpose flour
¼ tsp baking powder
4 small pears, peeled but stalk left on
2 tsp runny honey
Icing sugar for dusting

 

METHOD:

Heat oven to 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4.

Lightly butter four ramekins. Cream together butter and sugar until blended. Beat in the eggs vigorously. Add cocoa and beat again.

Quickly fold in flour and baking powder. Divide mixture between the four ramekins.

Cut base off each pear, making it stable. Press a pear into the middle of each ramekin and bake in the oven for 16 minutes. Serve drizzled with a little honey and a dusting of icing sugar.