{"id":21097,"date":"2013-06-22T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21097"},"modified":"2013-06-21T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T04:49:28","slug":"pear-chocolate-almond-cake-for-nicola-griffiths-all-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/22\/pear-chocolate-almond-cake-for-nicola-griffiths-all-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Pear, Chocolate & Almond Cake — for Nicola Griffiths & All of You :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many—but perhaps not all—of you may know, I am a foodie as well as (per the ‘legend’ above!) a novelist, poet, interviewer and blogger. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I also love SFF and an SF novel I very much enjoyed is Nicola Griffiths’ Ammonite<\/em><\/strong>–which you will also see listed on my recent post: Women Write Science Fiction: Yes, We Do!<\/a><\/p>\n

So when I saw Nicola tweeting about almond croissants (a favourite!) and also chocolate, I had to advocate for this Pear, Chocolate & Almond Cake<\/strong>—and having first tantalized, promised to post it today. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So without further ado, here it is:<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Pear, Chocolate\u00a0& Almond\u00a0 Cake<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

5 eggs, separated<\/span>
\n 120 g castor sugar<\/span>
\n 120 g plain cooking chocolate, melted on a very low heat, then cooled slightly<\/span>
\n 1 large, firm pear, peeled & grated<\/span>
\n 120 g ground almonds<\/span>
\n icing sugar for dusting<\/span><\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Preheat oven to 180 oC<\/sup>. Line & grease a 22 cm spring-form cake tin.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Beat the egg yolks & castor sugar together until light and fluffy.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Fold in the melted cooking chocolate, grated pear & ground almonds.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Beat the egg whites until stiff then fold into the egg and chocolate mixture.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 25-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. (Note: it takes about 35-40 in my oven but can get oven variation on heat\/time.)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Remove the cake from the tin and cool on a wire rack. (Note: I tend to remove from the spring-form tin oven but leave in greaseproof lining until cool.)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. When ready, sift over icing sugar and serve with whipped cream. (Strawberries are also very nice with it.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Serves: 10-12<\/span><\/p>\n

    And as Julia Childs would have said: Bon appetit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    —<\/p>\n

    Also:<\/p>\n

    – it’s both gluten and dairy free<\/p>\n

    – both taste and texture are absolutely fabulous<\/p>\n

    – the recipe originated from New Zealand’s Cuisine magazine, but an edition so long ago that I have lost all other details!<\/p>\n

    Note: despite the photo, I don't usually ice this cake. (It's tricky!)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    As many—but perhaps not all—of you may know, I am a foodie as well as (per the ‘legend’ above!) a novelist, poet, interviewer and blogger. \ud83d\ude09 I also love SFF and an SF novel I very much enjoyed is Nicola Griffiths’ Ammonite–which you will also see listed on my recent post: Women Write Science Fiction: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21097"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21115,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions\/21115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}