Pear chocolate cupcake with a whole pear

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a cupcake from pears? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take large, selected eggs. If the eggs are small, take 5 pieces. Butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. Take bitter chocolate with a cocoa content of at least 70%. It goes best with cognac. If you still take dark chocolate, then add less sugar. Use flour of the highest grade.

2. Step 2:

   

   Break the chocolate into pieces, put it in a saucepan, pour in the cognac and melt, stirring, in a water bath. Remove the melted chocolate from the heat and cool.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a bowl, combine the soft butter, sugar and whisk everything until fluffy.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add the eggs one at a time, beating the mass after each until smooth.

5. Step 5:

   

   After adding all the eggs, the mass will be slightly liquefied, but airy. That's how it should be.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the cooled melted chocolate with cognac and whisk again.

7. Step 7:

   

   The mass will immediately acquire a beautiful oily-brownish color.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add the sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Mix with a mixer on low speed until smooth. If desired, you can add 1-2 tbsp. l. without a slide of cocoa.

10. Step 9:

    

    You should get a smooth homogeneous, fragrant and very tasty dough.

11. Step 10:

    

    For the filling we will need fresh juicy and fragrant pears. The Conference variety is best suited, but ordinary seasonal pears are also suitable if they are not very hard and ripe. Wash the pears thoroughly. Even if the fruit has a hard, dense peel, it is not necessary to peel it, because inside the dough the pears practically boil and bake well, and the skin becomes very soft.

12. Step 11:

    

    To make the fruit stable, cut off the lower part of each pear.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put the dough in a greased and floured rectangular cake pan. I have a shape size of 30×10 centimeters. Press the pears into the dough at the same distance from each other. Put the cupcake in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 40-45 minutes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Cool the finished cupcake without removing it from the mold. Then put the cupcake on a platter, cut into pieces and serve to the table. Enjoy your meal!