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chocolate and pear tart

dessert recipes | serves 4 to 6
This dessert is great for chocaholics and the refreshing pear juices cut through the rich flavour - great for any dinner party.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5. Roll out the pastry until ½cm thick and use it to line a 24cm tart tin. Leave in the freezer to rest for at least 20 minutes, or longer if you can.

Bake the pastry blind for around 10 minutes in the preheated oven, then remove, set aside, and reduce the oven temperature to 170°C/325°F/gas 3.

Mix your almonds, eggs, butter and sugar together and stir in the melted chocolate while it’s still warm. Pour the mixture evenly into the pastry case and then press the pears into the chocolate and almond mixture.

Bake the tart for 45 minutes until the pastry is golden brown and the chocolate and almond mixture is firm. Serve warm with crème fraîche.

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ingredients

• a pack of ready-made shortcrust pastry
• 125g ground almonds
• 2 large free-range or organic eggs
• 125g butter, softened
• 95g caster sugar
• 185g dark chocolate, melted
• 3 conference pears, peeled, cored and quartered
• crème fraîche, to serve

user comments

29 comments

1. Hatteey Thu 12 Mar 2009 @ 17:15 making this tommorow at school for my catering course

2. Renella Thu 12 Mar 2009 @ 11:40 Great ...... another dish where there was nothing left over for me for breakfast !!!!

3. Dan Tue 03 Mar 2009 @ 14:07 Cheers mate! Even my girlfriend's daughter, a thirteen years old mischief queen, was charmed!

4. debby Mon 23 Feb 2009 @ 16:28 this looks amazin cant wait to make it

5. lisboete Sun 01 Feb 2009 @ 16:49 Delicious & simple to make. I reduced the amount of chocolate to 150g, added a bit of milk to it when microwaving to keep it liquid and smooth. It was a huge hit!

6. Simon Thu 29 Jan 2009 @ 17:18 i made this chocolate and pear tart it was delicious it was the best desert i have made.
im going to bakde this cake again and again then try another one of jamies deserts

7. Jaylan Tue 07 Oct 2008 @ 09:53 foood i dont like pear sian does

8. Amy Thu 25 Sep 2008 @ 14:02 I made this tart for my GCSE food work and got great marks for it, really scrummy =]

9. jaylan Mon 22 Sep 2008 @ 09:03 wat the hell who are u people??????????

10. mom Wed 17 Sep 2008 @ 14:21 Kids, stop fighting.

11. Jaylan Mon 15 Sep 2008 @ 11:19 okay

12. Gemma Wed 10 Sep 2008 @ 09:53 I know, everybody does

13. Nick jonas Tue 09 Sep 2008 @ 21:08 GEMMA I LOVE YOU!
Marry me?

14. Joseph Jonas Tue 09 Sep 2008 @ 21:07 Jaylan, I love you.

15. Jaylan Tue 09 Sep 2008 @ 10:31 BeeF...

16. Stuart Felstead Tue 09 Sep 2008 @ 10:15 I rub the pear on my nipples at night

17. abi mansell Mon 08 Sep 2008 @ 09:29 these tings taste and smell like poo, there not very nice

18. Kirsty Thu 03 Jul 2008 @ 10:26 Wat dat point on writing dat on a fruit recipe u geek !

19. Demi Thu 03 Jul 2008 @ 10:09 eeewww fruit

20. pinky Mon 09 Jun 2008 @ 13:39 does anybody here have the recipe of jamie for chocolate baked tart? when he made this for his gorgeous girlfriend. Does anybody here have his recipe for chocolate baked tart? please share it with me

thanks

21. lucy Fri 02 May 2008 @ 12:26 i cant wait to make this it looks lovely!!!

22. Kerry Savage Thu 28 Feb 2008 @ 08:42 I love this tart. It's easy to make and really scrummy!

23. Ramadamadingdong Fri 30 Nov 2007 @ 14:21 it went pear sha[ed

24. susan Sat 11 Aug 2007 @ 12:28 Made this fantastic creation today and shared it with friends. Everyone raved! I used tinned pears though.

25. Amelia Sun 29 Jul 2007 @ 02:44 I haven't seen Conference pears before, what other variety can one use for this recipe?

26. sarah Sat 07 Jul 2007 @ 02:23 this is a wicked tart, so easy to make and tastes delicious!

27. adrian Mon 02 Jul 2007 @ 18:34 creme fraiche is a kind of sour cream you buy it fromj a supermarket, or a dairy store

28. jarka Wed 27 Jun 2007 @ 20:12 what is creme fraiche.Where I can find recipe ?
thanks

29. adelish Thu 21 Jun 2007 @ 00:06 I made this tart yesterday and reheated it to serve today. It was delicious and really simple to make. Packs of crushed almonds were only sold in 100g bags so I couldn't be bothered to buy 2 so skimped on them but it still tasted and looked fine.