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Chocolate and coconut dessert friands

chocolate and coconut dessert friands
9 Item
45M

Ingredients

Method

1.Peel and halve pears. Place sugar and the water in a small saucepan, add pears, bring to the boil. Reduce heat, simmer, covered, about 20 minutes or until pears are tender.
2.Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan forced). Grease 9-hole (½-cup/125ml) oval friand pan. Place pan on an oven tray.
3.Break chocolate into a medium heatproof bowl, add butter. Place over a medium saucepan of simmering water (don’t let water touch base of bowl), stir until smooth. Cool 5 minutes. Whisk egg whites in a medium bowl until frothy, add chocolate mixture, extract, coconut, and sifted icing sugar and flour, stir until combined.
4.Divide mixture evenly into pan holes, top each with a pear half, cut-side up. Bake about 20 minutes. Stand friands in pan 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto a wire rack to cool.
5.Make chocolate sauce. Break chocolate into a medium heatproof bowl, add cream and butter, stir over medium saucepan of simmering water until smooth (don’t let water touch base of bowl). Stir in liqueur.
6.Serve friands with warm chocolate sauce.

We used chocolate with a 70% cocoa content. If paradise pears are unavailable, substitute 5 canned pear halves and omit step 1.

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