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Gooey figs and pairs!

A quick dessert for one greedy person!

Ingredients:

• cooking chocolate 
• a teaspoon of thick cream
• a fig in syrup, sliced
• half a tinned pear cut into slices
• ground cardamom
• a small heap of "faisselle"  (typical dessert of central France, like a lumpish fromage frais, named after the strainer in which it is made).

 

 

Recipe: 

• in a non-stick sauce pan, melt the chocolate squares (about 5...) on low heat in the cream and a drop of the pear juice
• add the sliced pear and fig and leave to warm up for about three minutes (mind the chocolate does not turn hard!)
• add a pinch of cardamom powder
• put the faisselle in a small bowl and poor the hot gooey fruit on top!

Careful, it's hot! 
Great with a spicy speculoos biscuit...