Chocolate almond and pear tart

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Chocolate almond and pear tart

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Chocolate and pears go together as well as strawberries and cream. This tart is just as good hot or cold. I prefer it just warm so that the almond flavour comes through

Ingredients

1 quantity Chocolate pastry or 300g (10oz) ready-made sweet shortcrust pastry
125g (4oz) unsalted butter, softened
125g (4oz) caster sugar
2 eggs
125g (4oz) ground almonds
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp almond extract
410-g (14-oz) can pear halves in natural juice, drained
15g (1/2oz) flaked almonds
1 Tbsp icing sugar, to dust
Pouring cream, to serve

Serves: 8

Directions

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Preheat the oven to //Gas mark Make the Chocolate pastry and roll out and line a -cm (in) loose-bottomed flan tin. Chill until required.
In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Gradually beat in the eggs and ground almonds. Sieve in the cocoa powder and fold in along with the almond extract. Spoon the mixture into the pastry case and smooth the top.
Cut the pear halves in half and pat dry with kitchen paper. Gently press the pear slices into the almond filling. Sprinkle with flaked almonds and bake in the oven for - minutes until the almonds are lightly golden and the sponge is firm to the touch.
Stand for minutes before removing from the tin. Dust with icing sugar and serve hot or cold with pouring cream.

Source: Chocolate! By Kathryn Hawkins