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Spiced Pears with Almond Chocolate Crème Fraîche

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If you make no other dessert from this book, make this. The chocolate in the almond crème fraîche melts on contact with the hot, yielding, syrupy pears – words fail. Try it and see.

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Ingredients

Williams pears, halved
cinnamon stick
star anise
cardamom pods, lightly crushed
muscat or preferred sweet white wine
honey
ground almonds
crème fraîche
dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids minimum), finely grated
icing sugar

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