Chocolate Pear Cake | Date-Sweetened
Soft, rich, perfectly chocolatey and naturally sweetened with Spotty Baking Date 'Sugar' (100% dried date powder)
Recipe by @adelaide.bites 💛
Ingredients
• 2 eggs
• 60g wholemeal flour
• 60g plain flour
• 20g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 50g Spotty Baking Date Sugar
• 120g plain Greek yogurt
• 30ml milk of choice
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 pears (1 diced into the batter, 1 sliced on top)
• Flaked almonds (optional)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 170°C.
2. Whisk eggs and date sugar until smooth.
3. Stir in the Greek yogurt and milk.
4. Fold in both flours, cocoa powder and baking powder.
5. Mix through one diced pear.
6. Pour into a lined 16–18cm cake tin, top with the sliced pear and flaked almonds.
7. Bake for 35–45 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely before slicing.
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