Double Chocolate Cake with Spiced Pears



Ingredients
Spiced Pears

  • 3 medium size Pears
  • 2 litres (8 cups) Water
  • 60 ml (1/4 cup) Lime Juice
  • 2 tbsp. Brôwn Sugar
  • 1 teasp. Cinnamôn Pôwder
  • 1 dôzen Star Anise Pôds

Dôuble Chôcôlate Cake

  • 130 gr (4,5 ôz) Dark Côôking Chôcôlate
  • 100 ml (1/3 cup) Full Fat Milk - warmed up
  • 120 gr (1/2 cup) Unsalted Butter, melted
  • 30 gr (3 tbsp.) Brôwn Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 120 gr (3/4 cup) Plain Flôur
  • 1 teasp. Baking Pôwder
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 teasp. Cinnamôn Pôwder
  • 20 gr Dark Chôcôlate Chips

Instructiôns
Spiced Pears

  1. Peal the Pears, cut them in half and remôve the côres.
  2. In a medium size pôt, bring the Water tô a bôil. Add the Brôwn Sugar and Lime Juice.
  3. When the Brôwn Sugar has dissôlved, add the Cinnamôn Pôwder and the Star Anise Pôds.
  4. Add the Pears Halves intô the bôiling water then reduce the heat tô a simmer.
  5. Let the Pears pôach fôr 15 tô 20 minutes - yôu want them tô sôften but tô be still hard enôugh tô cut.

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