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Ingredients - Chocolate Cake

  • 4 eggs
  • 150g sugar
  • 140g dark couverture chocolate
  • 120g butter
  • 50g flour
  • 30g powdered sugar

Ingredients - Red Wine Pear

  • 1L red wine
  • 500ml port wine
  • 200g sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 3 cinnamon sticks
  • 2 ripe pears
  • 2 tbsp starch
  • Vanilla ice cream

Preparation - Chocolate Cake

  • 1
    Beat the eggs vigorously with the sugar until a white, frothy mixture forms. Melt the couverture with the butter and add it to the egg mixture, stirring well. Then carefully fold in the flour.
  • 2
    Then fill the mixture into large muffin molds and bake in the oven at 190 °C for about 8 minutes.

Preparation - Red Wine Pear

  • 1
    Caramelize the sugar in a pot, deglaze with red wine and port wine, and reduce with the spices by 1/3.
  • 2
    Peel, core, and cut the pears into wedges. Place the pears in the liquid and simmer until tender over low heat.
  • 3
    Then add the starch mixed with water to thicken the liquid and create a nice glaze. Let the pears cool in the liquid afterward, this will intensify the color of the pears.

Finishing

  • 1
    Arrange the pears decoratively on the plate, sprinkle the chocolate cake with its molten core with a little powdered sugar and place it in the center. Scoop the vanilla ice cream into a nice ball with an ice cream scoop or a spoon and place it next to it.
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Ingredients - Chocolate Cake

Ingredients - Red Wine Pear