Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content

Search Over 15,000 Recipes

Advanced Search




Rosemary Shrager

Chocolate and Pear Torte


Serves 8

Ingredients

  • 150g butter
  • 150g dark chocolate
  • 4 small eggs, separated
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 60g self-raising flour
  • 2 ripe pears (preferably comice), peeled and cored
  • Icing sugar – for dusting

Method

  1. Preheat oven 180C.
  2. Line the bottom and side of a tin with butered greaseproof paper.
  3. Cut the pears into small pieces.
  4. Meanwhile, melt the butter and chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Make sure that the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl.
  5. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar and mix into the melted chocolate.
  6. Fold chocolate mix in the flour and the diced pears.
  7. Whisk the egg whites and when stiff fold into the mixture.
  8. Pour into a greased 22 cm. loose-bottomed tin, cover with buttered paper and bake for 45 to 50 mins.
  9. Rest in the tin for 15 minutes then turn out onto a rack to cool.
  10. When completely cold, dust with icing sugar.
  11. Serve with Poire William ice cream.
No Rating

Recipe Rating

4

Share this Recipe

Bookmark and Share

What do you think?

 
  • KrystynaCooks
    7 days ago

    I watched my taped episode of Rosemary Shrager's show where the budding cooks made the cake recipe along with the PEAR ICE CREAM aka POIRE WILLIAM ICE CREAM I HAVE NOT GOT the ICE CRAM RECIPE but will go onto the UK website with R.Shrager to find it - It was reviewed as delicious & very creamy I would like to make it if anyone was able to get the recipe I would appreciate it

  • kathleen stessens
    February 2012

    an easy and delicious recipe!

  • More
  • You will need to be a member to leave a comment - Log in / Register
    Add a new comment

Video More Videos

T-bone Steak

Neil Perry


Browse Recipes By...