Pear, Date & Dark Chocolate Crumble
Recipe: #41873
November 16, 2023
Categories: Desserts, Puddings, Dates, Pear, Austrian, British, Easter, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Chocolate, more
"A wonderful dessert to serve during the winter months. Served with vanilla ice cream, yoghurt or custard to make for a great yummy winter warmer."
Ingredients
- Filling Ingredients for crumble
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (338 g)
- Calories 763.1
- Total Fat - 51.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 22.7 g
- Cholesterol - 46.5 mg
- Sodium - 14.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 70.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 13 g
- Sugars - 29.5 g
- Protein - 9.7 g
- Calcium - 76 mg
- Iron - 4.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 56.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced.
Step 2
Peel & quarter length ways and core the pears; then place the pears into microwave safe shallow dish.
Step 3
Mix the vanilla extract with the water and sprinkle the pears with the lemon juice and vanilla water; gently tossing to combine. Cover the dish and microwave the pears on high for 5 minutes or until just tender; drain the pears and place into a 6-cup (about 4-5cm deep) baking dish and set aside to cool, during this time you can make the crumble.
Step 4
To make the crumble topping; Combine all crumble ingredients in a bowl, making sure all ingredients are well mixed & resembling coarse breadcrumbs.
Step 5
Toss the dates through the cooled pears and sprinkle over the chopped dark chocolate, then sprinkle with the crumble topping over to cover the pears.
Step 6
Bake for approx 40-45 minutes until pears are tender and crumble is crisp and lightly browned.
Step 7
Stand for 10 minutes before serving with some ice cream.
Tips
No special items needed.