Hazelnut-cinnamon wafers with caramelized pear wedges and chocolate sauce

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 800 g ripe pears
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON + 125 g soft butter
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 80 g ground hazelnuts
  • 25 g Hazelnut flakes
  • 80 g Icing sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 100 g Flour
  • 2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder
  • 1 TEASPOON ground cinnamon
  • 200 ml Milk
  • 100-125 ml chocolate sauce
  • 1 TEASPOON Icing sugar for dusting
  • 7-10 Tbsp Oil

Directions

  1. 1

    Peel the pears, quarter them, remove the seeds and cut them into slices. Caramelise the sugar in a pan until golden brown. First add 1 tbsp. butter, then add pear slices and lemon juice and simmer for about 2 minutes.

  2. 2

    Place in a bowl and allow to cool.

  3. 3

    Lightly roast ground hazelnuts in a pan without fat, remove and allow to cool. Clean the pan, roast the hazelnut leaves as well, take them out and let them cool down.

  4. 4

    Put 125 g butter, 80 g icing sugar and salt into a mixing bowl and whisk until creamy. Mix in the eggs one after the other, alternating with 1 tbsp. flour. Mix remaining flour, ground hazelnuts, baking powder and cinnamon and stir in briefly together with the milk.

  5. 5

    Preheat the heart-shaped waffle iron and spread a thin layer of oil on it. Pour in 1 small ladle of dough and bake at medium heat until golden brown. Bake seven more waffles in succession.

  6. 6

    Divide the waffles into hearts and arrange on plates with caramel pears and chocolate sauce, hot or cold. Dust with hazelnut leaves and 1 tsp. icing sugar.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
460 kcal
CARBS
47 g
FATS
26 g
PROTEINS
8 g