Best Chocolate cupcake with pears

The rich taste of chocolate cake goes very well with pears, especially if the pears are pre-boiled in syrup with berries. To make the cake not only tasty, but also look very impressive, the pears are not crushed, but put into the dough as a whole. Such unusual pastries will completely replace even a cake on your table. I advise!

Ingredients

• Pears (hard) - 3 pcs.
• For test:
• Flour - 180 g
• Cocoa powder - 30 g
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 150 g
• Butter - 100 g
• Sour cream - 50 g
• For syrup:
• Frozen cherries - 25 g
• Frozen currant - 25 g
• Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
• Cardamom - 4 pcs.
• Carnation - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 50 g
• Water - 300 ml

Directions

1. For preliminary preparation of pears, we prepare sugar syrup with berries. To do this, mix sugar, pre-thawed and mashed berries, water and spices. Bring the syrup to a boil.
2. We take hard pears for cake, peel them.
3. Dip the pears in the syrup and cook over low heat until soft. Remove the pears from the syrup and let cool.
4. In the meantime, the pears are cooling down, make the dough for the cake. Sift flour with cocoa.
5. In another bowl, beat eggs with sugar.
6. Add sour cream to the whipped mass and beat again a little.
7. Add half of the flour mixture and stir.
8. Add cooled melted butter and mix.
9. We introduce the rest of the flour with cocoa. Chocolate dough is ready.
10. Put the finished dough into a greased form and put whole pears into the dough.
11. We put the form in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. We bake a chocolate cake with pears for 40 minutes. If the pear tails start to darken at the end of baking, cover the cake with foil.
12. Remove the finished chocolate cake from the oven. The readiness of the cake can be checked by piercing it with a wooden skewer, it will be dry.
13. Take the cake out of the mold and cool it on a wire rack.
14. A real winter pastry - rich chocolate flavor, aroma of spices and juicy pears.
15. Bon appetit!