Chocolate, Pear and Pistachio Cake

Ingredients

• 200g plain flour, sifted
• 200g castor sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• 200g soft butter
• 200g dark chocolate bits
• ¾ cup pistachios
• 1 pear, peeled and chopped
• Zest of 1 orange

Method

• Preheat oven to 160ºC on fan forced function. Line the base of a 25cm round cake tin with baking paper.
• Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, add the eggs one at a time, beating for 30 seconds after each addition. Stir through the sifted flour and baking powder.
• Add the chocolate buttons, pistachios, pear and orange zest to the batter and stir to combine.
• Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then invert onto a plate.
• Serve with vanilla icecream.

Serves 10
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour