Chocolate and Pear Tart

Name: Chocolate and Pear Tart
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 medium eggs; 250 g unsalted butter; 180 g caster sugar; 380 g good dark chocolate, broken into pieces; 4 poached pears, cut in half lengthways; Poire Williams (eau de vie); Poire Williams (eau de vie); 1 x blind-baked 30 cm pastry tart shell; double cream and icing sugar, to serve; double cream and icing sugar, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

About

Don’t be tempted to cut into the tart for a few hours as the filling will still be very molten. This is a very gooey chocolate tart, even when set.

Ingredients

4 medium eggs
180 g caster sugar
250 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
October
September
Autumn
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 140°C/275°F/gas mark 1.

Whisk the eggs and sugar together until they have tripled in volume. Meanwhile, melt the butter and chocolate together in a bowl over a pan of hot water.

Toss the poached pears in 4