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Pear and chocolate puddings

Name: Pear and chocolate puddings
Total time: 1 h
Ingredients: butter 100g, plus a little for the tins; light muscovado sugar 160g; eggs 3; plain flour 60g; cocoa powder 30g; baking powder 2 tsp; ground almonds 55g; milk 60ml; pears 6 small, very ripe; pouring cream to serve

1 hour
serves 6
Easy

The best chocolate puddings are the ones that you don't have to share. We love these individual little pots of chocolate sponge and pear. Just add cream to serve and let your family and friends dive in

Published: December 19, 2014 at 2:33 pm

Ingredients

butter 100g, plus a little for the tins
light muscovado sugar 160g
eggs 3
plain flour 60g
cocoa powder 30g
baking powder 2 tsp
ground almonds 55g
milk 60ml
pears 6 small, very ripe
pouring cream to serve

Method

Step 1

Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter 6 × 250ml ramekins. Beat the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa, baking powder, ground almonds and milk together.
Step 2

Peel the pears and cut off the bottoms so that they will stand with a decent amount of height above the rims of the ramekins. Chop the bottom parts and fold into the chocolate mixture. Divide the mixture between the ramekins until they are two-thirds full, then push the tops of the pears in.
Step 3

Bake for 30 minutes or until the pudding mix is puffed around the pears. Serve with cream.