Chocolate & pear cake

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• Julie Bahrain

  2012-10-13 08:34:18.292347

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  Very good cake. Didn't have macadamia nuts so used more of the other nuts. Husband loved the sour cream and chocolate frosting; I used a mix of milk and dark chocolate.

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• Hilde

  2012-10-17 12:56:45.971936

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  Should the nuts be raw or roasted?

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• Nagina

  2012-10-18 16:00:00.289369

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  i like this cake

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• Nagina

  2012-10-18 16:00:01.891117

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  i like this cake

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• SavedRecipes

  2012-10-20 19:42:40.813145

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  Lovely moist tasty cake. Only negative is that the size tin stated i believe is too small. The mixture only just fit therefore once it was risen it came up and just over the edge making it very difficult to remove from the tin! I added a little icing sugar to the icing as felt it too tart. Also i blitzed the nuts but would have been better to roughly chop - other than that would definitely recommend!

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• Bunches

  2012-11-06 11:17:42.079

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  I found this cake to be overly complicated with different flavours. I didn't really like the chocolate mixed with the different spices. It seemed to be a cross between a chocolate brownie and bread pudding, especially with the addition of the wholemeal flour! Sorry, didn't really like it.

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Ingredients

• 250g pack butter , melted, plus a little extra for the tin
• 250g caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour
• 50g wholemeal flour
• 100g ground almonds
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• good grating nutmeg
• 50g whole hazelnuts , finely chopped
• 50g whole almonds with skins on, finely chopped
• 50g pistachios , finely chopped
• 50g macadamia nuts , finely chopped
• 100g dark chocolate , finely chopped, or dark chocolate chips
• 3 large eggs , beaten
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 2 pears , peeled, cored and diced

FOR THE ICING

• 300ml pot soured cream
• 100g dark chocolate , broken into chunks
• 100g milk chocolate , broken into chunks

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CUTS INTO 10 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 45 mins

Cook 1 hr 5 mins

Ingredients

• 250g pack butter , melted, plus a little extra for the tin
• 250g caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour
• 50g wholemeal flour
• 100g ground almonds
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• good grating nutmeg
• 50g whole hazelnuts , finely chopped
• 50g whole almonds with skins on, finely chopped
• 50g pistachios , finely chopped
• 50g macadamia nuts , finely chopped
• 100g dark chocolate , finely chopped, or dark chocolate chips
• 3 large eggs , beaten
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 2 pears , peeled, cored and diced

FOR THE ICING

• 300ml pot soured cream
• 100g dark chocolate , broken into chunks
• 100g milk chocolate , broken into chunks

PER SLICE

806 kcalories, protein 13.0g, carbohydrate 65.0g, fat 55.0 g, saturated fat 24.0g, fibre 5.0g, sugar 48.0g, salt 0.8 g

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