Chocolate Cake With Pears and Walnuts

The chocolate cake with pear and walnuts is a classic, soft dessert with unparalleled deliciousness! Have you ever tried the irresistible combination of pears and dark chocolate? It is pure poetry for the palate!

In fact, it is used in confectionery to make lots of sweets and cakes! There are several versions: vegan, donut shape, with the addition of spices, this one that I propose today is the super-delicious classic recipe, among other things, very easy to make and ready in less than an hour!

A chocolate cake with a soft and chocolaty consistency that melts in the mouth like the classic chocolate cake, but with an exquisite contrast: sweet pears that sink into the cocoa mixture and embrace the pieces or chips of melted dark chocolate! And for a super tasty finishing touch, the crunchy walnuts. 

A heavenly combination of flavors that will literally make you fall in love with the first taste! The beauty of this recipe is that you can add the pears either in thin slices, or almost whole, simply divided into 2 or 4 parts: thanks to the thick dough, they will not sink to the bottom and will form a wonderful decoration on the cake!

The chocolate cake with pear and walnuts is the perfect dessert for all occasions: you can serve it as a dessert and pamper yourself at the end of the meal with a delicious chocolate cake, perhaps over a cup of hot tea and a lit fireplace. It is also ideal as a breakfast cake or snack. The next day it gets even better!

Try it now by following all my step-by-step tips! If you love the combination of pears and chocolate, I’m sure you will prepare this fluffy cake for all autumn and winter! The result will be perfect!

• Preparation Time: 10 minutes
• Baking Time: 45 minutes
• Total Time: 55 minutes

Ingredients for a 24 cm cake pan:

• 2 large, very firm and hard pears
• 170 g flour
• 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 150 g sugar
• 70 g sunflower oil or melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 125 g white yogurt, at room temperature
• 130 g dark chocolate, in pieces or chips
• 20 g salted caramel chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 16 g baking powder
• a handful of walnuts

How to make the chocolate cake with pear and walnuts – Step-by-step instructions

First of all, whip the eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract for 2 minutes with a handheld or stand mixer until the mixture becomes frothy and clear. 

Add, constantly whipping the oil a little at a time.

Add alternating the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder previously sifted with the yogurt.

In a few minutes, the chocolatey dough is ready! It is dense and full-bodied! It must be so!

Add the pieces of chocolate or chips (keeping aside 2 tablespoons of chocolate pieces to decorate), and the salted caramel chocolate chips, and mix well.

Preheat the oven at 180ºC and line a springform cake pan with parchment paper.

Peel the pears. Cut them into slices. As you prefer, thin, large, 4 – 5 parts are fine too!

The important thing is that the pears are nice and firm!

Pour the mixture into the prepared cake pan.

Add the pears to the surface, forming circles: the trick to having a chocolate cake with a beautiful decoration is not to sink the pears too much on the surface! Some you push them deeper, others you leave them higher.

Finally, add a handful of chocolate pieces or chips previously kept aside from the total and the walnuts.

Have you seen how beautiful this cake is even when raw???

Bake in the preheated oven at 180ºC for 40 to 45 minutes. The time is indicative and can change depending on the oven!

Please do not open for the first 30 minutes, then evaluate.

The chocolate cake with pear and walnuts is ready when a toothpick inserted in the middle of it will remain dry with only a few crumbles on it!

Remove from the oven, take it out from the pan after 10 minutes and let it cool.

Here is the chocolate cake with pear and walnuts!

Notes and Variations:

Instead of chocolate chips, you can use pieces of chocolate! You can flavor the dough with half a teaspoon of cinnamon or add a little orange zest. For the sweet tooth, add a handful of chopped hazelnuts or sliced almonds together with the dark chocolate! If you don’t have oil at home, you can use melted butter in equal quantities. The only recommendation for the success of this dessert, use firm and turgid pears and ingredients at room temperature!

Useful tips:

-The cake can be kept at room temperature for 3 – 4 days in a dry place. Cover it with a cloth or a cake bell!

– The next day, the chocolate cake with pear and walnuts is even better because all the aromas and flavors have settled!

And of course it was almost entirely gone before I could photograph a slice.

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Enjoy the chocolate cake with pear and walnuts!

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