Five-minute chocolate and pear mug cakes recipe

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Craving a dessert in a flash? These quick and simple mug cakes are made all the more special by sweet and fragrant Conference pears. See method

Ingredients

No self-raising flour? Add 2 tsp baking powder for every 150g plain flour

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 74.6g Protein 11.8g Fibre 3.9g

Put the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Microwave for 45 secs-1 min on medium until melted. Add the caster sugar, egg, flour and coffee and whisk until just combined. Grease the base of a 300ml, straight-sided microwave-proof mug and put the pear in the bottom. Top with the cake mixture. Cook for 2 mins on high until risen.
Leave the cake in the mug to rest for 10 secs, then turn out and serve dusted with the icing sugar, and topped with crème fraîche or ice cream, if you like.

Need to know: Pears brown quickly once cut. If not using straight away, transfer to a bowl with water and lemon juice.