Pear and Chocolate Sponge

Name: Pear and Chocolate Sponge
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps baking cocoa; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 473 milliliters confectioners sugar; 3 eggs; 6 canned pear halves; 315 milliliters self-rising flour; 177 milliliters castor sugar; 1 dash vanilla extract; 7 walnut halves; 118 milliliters chopped walnuts; 1 Tbsp boiling water, or as needed

Pear and Chocolate Sponge might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 840 calories, 9g of protein, and 42g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. If you have baking cocoa, water, walnut halves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 40 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and line two 8 inch round cake pans with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Oven

In a large bowl, cream together 3/4 cup butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Sift the flour into the bowl, and fold it in with a spoon. Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared pans.

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Butter

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

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Bowl

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until the center of the cakes spring back when lightly touched.

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Oven

To make the frosting, mix together the confectioners' sugar and 1 cup butter until light and fluffy, at least 5 minutes.

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Powdered Sugar

Frosting

Butter

Mix the cocoa powder with just enough boiling water to dissolve, and blend it into the sugar mixture along with the vanilla.

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Cocoa Powder

Vanilla

Sugar

Water

To assemble: Split each cake layer into halves horizontally and lay the halves out side by side. Use half of the buttercream, and spread it over 3 of the layers. Sandwich them together with the unfrosted one on the top.

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Spread

Place the cake on a serving plate, and frost the sides and top with the remaining frosting. Press chopped nuts onto the sides of the cake. Arrange pear halves on the top, and decorate with swirls of buttercream and walnut halves.

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Walnut Halves