Mulled wine, pear & cinnamon cake with chocolate chestnut ganache

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• Stephthecook

  23 December 2012

  Stephthecook rated and commented on this recipe

  

  A lovely moist cake, but make sure you dry the pears off well.Bought tinned chestnut purée for the ganache which made it a bit lumpy but it didn't seem to matter. Makes plenty of icing and was easy to make - an ideal present for those who aren't keen on traditional fruit cake. The only problem was, between decorating and delivering this as a present, the icing sugar was absorbed by the icing only leaving a faint trace of the pear shape! Went down a treat though :-D

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• Serious Eats

  29 December 2012

  Serious Eats rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this one for Christmas dinner and although my pears sunk to the bottom cake layer and I had to add copious amounts of icing sugar to the chestnut ganache (it wasn't sweet at all!) it went down quite well. It was ever so light tasting and the cinnamon married well with the chocolate. I did reduce the amount of chocolate and upped the chestnut quantity in the ganache as, from experience, I find the chocolate completely overpowers the chestnut taste. Very tasty though!

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Ingredients

• 2 ripe pears
• 100ml mulled wine
• 175g butter , softened
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 175g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp milk
• 40g cooked chestnuts , chopped
• cocoa powder , for dusting
• icing sugar , for dusting

CHESTNUT GANACHE

• 250ml double cream
• 100g 70% dark chocolate , chopped
• 250g chestnut purée

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Difficulty and servings

Serves 12

Preparation and cooking times

Ready in 1 hr plus cooling

Ingredients

• 2 ripe pears
• 100ml mulled wine
• 175g butter , softened
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• 175g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp milk
• 40g cooked chestnuts , chopped
• cocoa powder , for dusting
• icing sugar , for dusting

CHESTNUT GANACHE

• 250ml double cream
• 100g 70% dark chocolate , chopped
• 250g chestnut purée

PER SERVING

430 kcalories, protein 4.3g, carbohydrate 39.2g, fat 27.6 g, saturated fat 16.5g, fibre 2.0g, salt 1.7 g

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