for 12 pieces

Brownie mixture

200 g	dark chocolate (64% cocoa), broken into pieces
200 g	butter, cut into pieces
4	fresh eggs
150 g	cane sugar
75 g	white flour
2 tbsp	cocoa powder
1 ½ tsp	baking powder
200 g	walnut kernel, coarsely chopped
2	pear, peeled, halved, thinly sliced

How it's done

Brownie mixture

Place the chocolate and butter in a thin-sided bowl and suspend over a gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate and stir until smooth, allow to cool slightly. Using the whisk on a hand mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy, stir in the melted chocolate. Combine the flour, cocoa and baking powder, mix in the nuts. Transfer the brownie mixture to the prepared tin, arrange the pears on top.

To bake

Approx. 35 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. The brownies should still be a little gooey inside. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly. Carefully remove the tin frame, slide the brownies onto a rack and leave to cool.

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