Bourbon pear chocolate loaf
4 October 2017
317
calories
1.2
hours
10
servings
Ingredients
- 270g flour
- 150g brown sugar
- 50g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 200g pear puree (about 2 pears) (store bought or made in a blender)
- 100ml olive oil
- 50ml bourbon
- 30ml milk
- 3-4 whole pears
- almond flakes to sprinkle
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a loaf tin and line it with a parchment.
- In one bowl mix all the dry ingredients.
- In another bowl whisk together pear puree, egg, olive oil, milk, and bourbon. Gradually add dry ingredients in there, mixing the batter until smooth.
- Pour the batter into the loaf tin, insert peeled whole pears, and sprinkle almond flakes on top.
- Bake for 50 minutes until the wooden pick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.