Pear Helene Slices

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Peel, halve and core the pears. Cut the pear surface several times with a knife. For the sponge mixture, whip the fat, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar until creamy with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour, starch and 1 packet of baking powder and stir in portions.

2. 2

   Halve the dough. Spread half of the dough on a greased fat pan of the oven (32 x 39 cm). Stir cocoa and milk into the other half and spread on the light-coloured dough. Spread pear halves on top and press in lightly. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 30-40 minutes. (Cover the cake with aluminium foil or 1 baking tray if it gets too dark!) Remove from the oven and place on a cake rack. Heat apricot jam and 1-2 tbsp. water in a small pot. Spread the pears with the jam, let the cake cool down. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a bowl over a warm water bath. Put the chocolate in a small freezer bag, cut off 1 small corner.

3. 3

   water in a small pot. Spread the pears with the jam, let the cake cool down. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a bowl over a warm water bath. Put the chocolate in a small freezer bag, cut off 1 small corner. Cover the cake with strips. Let the chocolate coat. Cut cake into pieces and dust with icing sugar if necessary

4. 4

   waiting time approx. 1 1/2 hours