Chocolate and pears delight

For: 4 persons
Difficulty : medium



INGREDIENTS:

 for the pastry:

• 165 g flour
• 125 g butter
• 30 g sugat
• 30 g almonds

 

for the stuffing:

• 4-5 pears
• 90 g butter
• 45 g cocoa powder 
• 200 g brown sugar
• 45 g flour
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

 for decoration:

• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Pour into a bowl the flour, the sugar, the chopped almonds, 3-4 tablespoons of water and the butter and knead until the mixture is very crumbly.Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 min. Roll out the pastry, lined a baking pan and let rest in the refrigerator.

Peel the pear,remove the seeds and cut them into 4 pieces,Prick the dough with a fork and sprinkle with sugar.Put on the pears and bake it for 15 min at 180°C.  Meanwhile melt the butter and the cocoa mixing well.Mounted the egg and the brown sugar , add the butter and cocoa and sift over the flour. Stir everything and  add the vanilla extract.Pour it on the pears and bake it for anther 15 min.Leave to cool and sprinkle the cake with icing sugar 

Cake with citrus fruits and milk chocolate

For : 6 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS
   for the cake:

• 150g milk chocolate
• 90 g almonds
• 60 g flour type "00"
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 
• 1 lemon
• 1 orange
• 4eggs
• 125g sugar
• 2 spoon milk
• 20g butter                                                                                                    

                                             

 for decoration:

• 170 ml fresh cream
• icing sugar

PREPARATION:

Grease a mold and cover the bottom with parchment paper.Chop 100g chocolate with a tablespoon of grated citrus zest. Add the flour and the almonds and blend them briefly.Beat the eggs yolks and the sugar,and then add the previous mixture and the warm milk,Whip the eggs whites with a pinch of salt and stir everything with the aid of a spatula and making movements from bottom up.Add the baking powder and pour the mixture in the mold. Bake it for 45 min at 180°C. When the cake is cooled, cut it into 2 pieces.Melt the chocolate in a double boiler remained and spread the base of the cake.Stuffed with whipped cream and cover with the top of the cake,Let on the fridge for 20 min and add on top the icing sugar and chocolate flakes.

Soup chocolate

For : 4 persons
Difficulty : low




INGREDIENTS:

• 8yolks
• 270g sugar
• 1 l milk
• 200 ml fresh cream
• 300g dark chocolate of 70%
• 300 g puffed rice
• saffron

  PREPARATION:

  Melt in a double boil the dark chocolate with 100 g of fresh cream. In a mixer whip the yolk and the sugar, In part, united in a pot the milk with 100g of fresh cream and saffron, and bring it to boil.Mixed the hot milk to the egg yolks sugary and put it back to the fire, bringing the mixture to a temperature of 70/80 °C. Stir in a ice cream maker.

In a flat bottom put the hot chocolate and lie down on a saffron ice  cream spoon, sprinkle with crisped rice.

Chestnuts spoon

For: 4 persone 

Difficult: mediu 

Preparation : 25 MIN

INGREDIENTS :

• 600 g chestnuts
• 150 g dark chocolate chopped
• 120 g butter
• 120 g sugar 
• a bit of sale

PREPARATION :
   
   
   Boiling the chesstnuts in salted water.When they are boiled you have to grind it.
Melt the chocolate and mixed with the chestnuts , still wormed, putting the sugar and butter.
Knead the dought ling and well.Grease and line a rectangular mold of wax paper,spill the compost  and cover it whit wax papper.Put it in the fridge for at lest 4 hours.After you can cut it in the shape you want (heart ,flowers ,square).Serve whit the cream separately