Flourless chocolate cake with pear, macadamia and creme chantilly - 9Kitchen

Ingredients

• 200g unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup macadamia nuts, chopped
• 1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 6 eggs
• 1½ cups almond meal
• 1½ tbsp cocoa
• 200g dark chocolate (we used Plaistowe 70% cocoa solid), melted
• 3 firm Beurre Bosc pears, peeled, halved & cores removed
• Crème chantilly
• 300ml thickened cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar, sieved
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Icing sugar, extra, for dusting
• peeler
• Teaspoon
• 25cm springform tin
• pastry brush
• electric mixer
• silicon spatula
• skewer
• fine sieve