Pear cake (gateau aux poires belle helene)

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
¾ cup Butter or margarine; softened
2½ cup Flour; all-purpose
1 cup Sugar
½ teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Baking soda
4 Squares baking chocolate; unsweetened, melted
1 Egg
1 cup Milk
1 can Pear halves; rinsed and drained
⅓ cup Pecan halves

Directions

Preheat the oven at 350F.

Using a lectric mixer, cream the butter. Add the flour et sugar et using low speed mix well, until the mix seems like sand. reserve ⅓ cup of this mixture.

Add to the remaining mixture, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate, the egg and milk. Mix just to insure that everything is mix.

Spread ⅓ of the chocolate mixture into a 9" spring pan, greased. Dispose onto the mixture the pear in circle, the cut side down. Cover the prears with the remainder of the chocolate mixtrue. Sprinkle the mixture the ⅓ cup mixture that was reserved and sprinkle over the pecans.

Bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle come out clean

Recipe by: Baker's Best chocolate cookbook Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Andre Beaulieu <abeaul@...> on Apr 13, 1998

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