Recipe - Hazelnut Pear Bread

100 g Ground roasted hazelnuts
100 g Butter
100 g Flour; sifted
250 ml Milk
1 Vanilla pod
10 Egg whites
6 Egg yolks
100 g Caster sugar

CHOCOLATE SAUCE
3 ounce Cocoa powder
5 Floz boiling water
2 ounce Icing sugar
6 ounce Dark chocolate
Cointreau
2 Floz black coffee

Preheat oven to 180C/325F/gas 4.

Melt the butter in a pan and add the flour. Cook out.

Warm the milk in a pan with the vanilla pod and carefully add to the roux.

Place into a bowl and mix in 2 egg whites. Incorporate the egg yolks one at
a time, beating until smooth. Whisk the remaining 8 egg whites to a snow
with the sugar and stir a third into the yolk mixture.

Fold in the hazelnuts, then the whisked egg whites. Pipe into the moulds
(greased) and dust with sugar. Fill three quarters full. Cook in a bain
Marie for 2530 minutes.

Chocolate sauce: Add the cocoa powder to water. Add all to melted
chocolate, coffee and liqueur.

Serve with the chocolate sauce and toasted hazelnuts and icing sugar and
cocoa powder dusted on top.

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