Mom’s Pear Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake recipe (use your favorite recipe)
½ cup melted butter
½ cup brown sugar
1½ cups really good quality dark chocolate chips
2 large cans of good quality canned pears
For serving:
lightly sweetened whipped cream
Prepare your chocolate cake batter, stir 1 cup of the chocolate chips into the batter. And set aside.
Preheat the oven according to the instructions of the cake recipe.
Lightly grease a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray. Drain the pears from the cans, reserving the juice.
Place pears into the bundt pan to size how big they should be to fit snugly in the bottom. Cut according to the size of your pan and set aside.
Meanwhile, melt the butter and pour into the bottom of the bundt pan. Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the melted butter.
Pour about ¼ - ½ cup of pear juice over the sugar and place the pears back into the bottom of the pan, cut side up. Scatter a few chocolate chips around. Slowly pour the chocolate cake mixture into your cake pan above the pears.
Bake according to recipe instructions until a toothpick or cake tester inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and cool completely on a wire rack.
When room temperature, place a large serving plate upside down over the bundt pan and carefully flip the cake over to unmold. If any pears remain in the bottom of the pan, just tuck them back into the top of the cake.
Serve with lightly sweetened whipped cream.
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