Pear chocolate cake with chocolate meringue

Name: Pear chocolate cake with chocolate meringue
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 100 g Dark chocolate; 100 g Butter or margarine; 3 Eggs (size M); 350 g Sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 3 (à 200 g) Pears; 1 TABLESPOON Cocoa powder; 150 g Flour; 2 Protein (size M); 7-10 Tbsp Fat and sugar

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12

100 g Dark chocolate
100 g Butter or margarine
3 Eggs (size M)
350 g Sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
1 pinch Salt
3 (à 200 g) Pears
1 TABLESPOON Cocoa powder
150 g Flour
2 Protein (size M)
7-10 Tbsp Fat and sugar

Directions

1
Roughly chop the chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Melt the fat. Beat the eggs, 250 g sugar, vanillin sugar and salt until creamy. Carefully stir in the fat, half the chocolate and cocoa.
2
Sift the flour over it and fold in. Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and sprinkle with sugar. Pour in the dough. Peel and halve the pears, remove the core and stem. Spread the pears in a circle on the dough with the cut surface downwards.
3
Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 45 minutes. Beat the egg white until stiff, add 100 g sugar. After 15 minutes baking time, spread meringue on the cake, leaving an approx. 2 cm wide edge free.
4
Pour the remaining chocolate over the meringue and carefully fold it in with a spoon. Remove the finished cake, let it cool down and cut it into pieces.