Steamed chocolate cake and poached pears

Chocolate ganache filling

• 200 g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
• 100 g pouring (whipping) cream

Chocolate cake

• 120 g unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus extra to grease
• 100 g plain flour, plus extra to dust
• 3 Beurre Bosc pears, ripe but firm, peeled, cored and cut into quarters
• 1 cinnamon quill
• 4 eggs, separated
• 100 g sugar
• 120 g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 pinch sea salt

Poached pears

• 1000 g water
• 100 g white sugar
• 20 g lemon juice
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 200 g whipped cream