Cake with Chocolate, Pistachios and Pear

ingredients

• 200gr sugar
• zest from 1 orange
• 3 eggs
• 200gr all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• a pinch of salt
• 125gr butter melted
• 1 pear grated
• 50gr pistachios from Aegina chopped
• 100gr milk chocolate chopped
• 100gr dark chocolate chopped

instructions

Preheat oven to 180C.
Butter and flour a 34x10cm cake pan.

  
In a bowl add sugar and zest. Rub between your fingers to wet sugar and release aromas. Add egg lightly beaten and mix with a wire whip. Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, butter, grated pear and mix with the wire whip. 
Add pistachios and chocolates and mix gently with a spatula. Pour batter in the pan and bake for 40 minutes.

Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.