Chocolate Pear Cake

Ingredients

• •125 g margarine
• •1 cup cornmeal
• •1 cup sugar
• •4 eggs
• •1 packet vanilla
• •1.5 cups flour
• •1 packet baking powder
• •A pinch of salt
• •40 g crumbled dark chocolate
• •1/2 cup raisins
• •2 medium pears

Preparation

1. 1

   Melt the margarine and set aside to cool. Grease a 26 cm cake tin with 1 tbsp margarine and sprinkle 1 tbsp cornmeal over it.

2. 2

   Set aside 1 tbsp of the sugar and put the rest in a mixing bowl. Add the margarine, eggs, vanilla sugar, cornmeal, flour, baking powder and salt and beat for 5 minutes. Add the chocolate and raisins and mix.

3. 3

   Pour the prepared mixture into the cake tin.

4. 4

   Peel the pears, slice thinly and arrange on the batter, pressing gently. Sprinkle the reserved 1 tbsp sugar over the top and bake. Bake in a preheated 170°C oven for 40–50 minutes.