I had a few small pears in the crisper that I needed to use as they were fairly ripe. This is a delicious recipe. I've just ordered a dwarf peach tree to espalier along the back fence so I'll have fresh pears from my own garden to use in the future. Need to wait till early 2011 to get the tree though.
Ingredients
125 g cooking chocolate
2 tb butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
4 large eggs
2 tablespoons brandy
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 heaped tablespoons plain flour
2-3 ripe pears, peeled, cored, and sliced
Pastry - 1 cup plain flour, 100g margarine, water for mixing (or use thawed pastry sheet)
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 200C
Melt chocolate and butter in microwave (or in a bowl over boiling water)
Whisk sugar into melted chocolate mixture, then maple syrup, whisking thoroughly after each addition. Whisk eggs in one at a time, then whisk in vanilla, brandy, and flour.
Fit pastry into a 20cm pie plate. Arrange pear slices over bottom of pie crust, then pour chocolate mixture over.
Bake for 10 minutes, then lower oven temperature to 180C and bake 35-40 minutes more, until top is no longer shiny and appears set. Note: filling will set as pie cools.
Serve at room temperature.
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