Recipe - Pear Cake (Gateau Aux Poires Belle Helene)

Three fourths cup Butter or margarine;
softened
2 One half cup Flour; allpurpose
1 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Baking soda
4 Squares baking chocolate;
unsweetened, melted
1 Egg
1 cup Milk
1 cn Pear halves; rinsed and
drained
1/3 cup Pecan halves

Preheat the oven at 350F.

Using a lectric mixer, cream the butter. Add the flour et sugar et using
low speed mix well, until the mix seems like sand. reserve 1/3 cup of this
mixture.

Add to the remaining mixture, baking soda, baking powder, chocolate, the
egg and milk. Mix just to insure that everything is mix.

Spread 1/3 of the chocolate mixture into a 9" spring pan, greased. Dispose
onto the mixture the pear in circle, the cut side down. Cover the prears
with the remainder of the chocolate mixtrue. Sprinkle the mixture the 1/3
cup mixture that was reserved and sprinkle over the pecans.

Bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle come out
clean

Recipe by: Baker's Best chocolate cookbook

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Andre Beaulieu abeaul@colba.net on Apr
13, 1998