Dessert Recipes - Chocolate Pears Melties Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 slices of chocolate slab cake

• 400 g/14 oz/1 large can of pear halves, drained, reserving the juice

• 20 ml/4 tsp sweet sherry (optional)

• 4 chocolate mint thins

• Whipped or aerosol cream, to serve

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Method:

1. Put the slices of cake in four shallow. individual ovenproof dishes.

2. Spoon 10 ml/2 tsp of the pear juice over each slice and add 5 ml/1 tsp sherry to each, if using. Top with the pears.

3. Lay a chocolate mint thin on top of each and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6 for 5 minutes until the chocolate has melted.

4. Serve straight away with whipped cream.