PEAR AND CHOCOLATE CAKE

 And here we go...again!Another cake!In this after-Christmas period I'm still a lot into cakes...also if I should be more into dieting...but this s for the kids. They are always an excellent excuse for cooking ... and eating!

Ingredients:
100 gr grounded amaretti
3 very mature pears
2 eggs
100 g sugar
170 gr butter
200 gr of self-raising flour
20 gr of bitter cocoa
1 glass milk
apricot jam

Peel the pears and slice them lengthwise.

Beat the egg whites until stiff.

Work the butter with the sugar and the egg yolks for at least 10 minutes , then add the flour, the amaretti and the glass of milk.

 Divide the mixture into two halves and add the cocoa powder to one half.

 Pour the cocoa one in a 20 cm round tin covered with baking foil and add the other half of dough.
Above place the pears.

 Bake in a preheated oven at 180 ° for 35-40 minutes.

 Once cooked, brush the cake with apricot jam diluted with a little lukewarm water or powder it with icing sugar.

You can accompany it with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.