Pear chocolate cupcake with whole pear

8 servings
1 hour 30 min

How to make a cupcake from pears? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Take large selected eggs. If the eggs are small, take 5 pieces. Butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the fridge beforehand. Take bitter chocolate with a cocoa content of at least 70%. It works best with cognac. If you still take dark chocolate, then add less sugar. Use top grade flour.

Break the chocolate into pieces, put in a saucepan, pour in the cognac and melt, stirring, in a water bath. Remove the melted chocolate from the heat and chill.

In a bowl, combine the soft butter, sugar and whisk everything together until fluffy.

Add the eggs one at a time, whisking the mass after each until smooth.

After adding all the eggs, the mass will be slightly liquefied, but airy. That's the way it should be.

Place the cooled melted chocolate with the cognac and whisk again.

The mass will immediately acquire a beautiful oily-brownish color.

Pour in the sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Stir with a mixer at low speed until smooth. If desired, you can add 1-2 tbsp. l without a slide of cocoa.

It should turn out smooth homogeneous, fragrant and very tasty dough.

For filling, we will need fresh juicy and fragrant pears. The Conference variety is best, but regular seasonal pears are also suitable if they are not very tough and ripe. Wash the pears thoroughly. Even if the fruit has a tough, dense peel, it is not necessary to clean it, because inside the dough the pears practically boil and bake well, and the skin becomes very soft.

To make the fruit stable, cut the bottom of each pear.

Place the dough in an oiled and floured rectangular cupcake shape. I have a shape size of 30×10 centimeters. Press the pears into the dough at the same distance from each other. Place the cupcake in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for 40-45 minutes.

Cool the finished muffin without taking it out of the mold. Then put the cupcake on a dish, cut into pieces and serve. Enjoy your meal!