Name: Pear & Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 150 ml coconut oil, melted, plus 1 tbsp, plus extra for greasing; 5 ripe pears; 60 g cocoa powder, plus 2 tbsp; 200 g white caster sugar, plus 2 tbsp, plus extra for sprinkling; 225 g self-raising flour

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

So Vegan in 5

By Roxy Pope and Ben Pook

Published 2018

About

This epic pudding took on various shapes and sizes before we finally settled on what you now see before you. We wanted to create something that not only looks the part, but totally tastes the part.

Ingredients

5 ripe pears
225 g self-raising flour
60 g cocoa po

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas mark 6. Grease a 23cm-round springform cake tin with coconut oil and line the base of the tin with baking paper.

Peel 2 of the pears, remove the cores and cut the flesh into small pieces. Add the pear pieces to a small sauc