Chocolate Pear Cake (German)

The Chocolate pear cake is an original German cake and is very easy to bake. If you don't have the pkgd vanilla sugar you can make it yourself Go to the Recipe Vanilla Sugar Home Made- The recipe is also using egg liquor which you can get in some special liquor stores. The alternative would be the Pennsylvania Dutch egg nog.

ripe pears (600 g)
4 Tbsp. lemon juice, freshly squeezed
2 Tbsp. Monk Fruit Sweetener with Erythritol (Powdered) or pure maple syrup
100 g chocolate semi-sweet (100 g)
butter, at room temperature (160 g)
3 medium eggs
110 g sugar
1 (0.3 oz) pkg Dr Oetker vanilla sugar
unsweetened cocoa (15 g)
all-purpose flour, unbleached (240 g)
1 (0.5 oz) pkg baking powder
heavy cream or milk (80 mL)
egg liqueur (70 mL)
3 Tbsp. apricot jam

Peel pears, cut in qters, remove cores. Then cut the qters again.

Mix lemon juice with confectioners' sugar or maple syrup and pour over pears.

Let pears sit for 30 minutes, have them covered and placed in the fridge.

Chop chocolate coarsely and with double boiler method melt it on low heat. Let cool off a bit.

Mix soft butter with sugar and vanilla sugar until you get a cream.

Add one egg after the other, mix well.

Add warm chocolate (it should not be hot). Mix until you get a thickened cream.

Mix all-purpose flour, unbleached with baking powder and cocoa, sieve it and add alternating with heavy cream/milk and egg liqueur to the chocolate cream by using a wooden spoon.

Grease a spring form (26 cm) and layer it with parchment paper. Press the paper against the edges of the spring from. It will stick as the form is greasy.

Pour dough into spring form and spread even.

Place the pears in the dough.

Bake in preheated oven for about 40-50 minutes on 350°F (180°C/160°C fan, Gas Mark 4) do the test by poking the cake with a toothpick or skewer to find out if it is done. It is done when no dough is sticking on the skewer).

Warm jam on medium heat and when the cake is done, spread over hot cake.

Let cake cool off in the form, then release and place on a plate.

Serve the cake with whipped cream and sprinkle with a hint of cinnamon.