A great cake recipe for any occasion:
Cream butter or light butter with sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon, gradually add eggs until mixture is white creamy. Sift flour and cornstarch over the top and fold in with a wooden spoon. Cut both types of chocolate into very small cubes. Peel the pears, cut into quarters, remove the core, blossom and stem ends, dice not too finely and fold into the batter with the chocolate. Bake for 70-75 minutes on the middle shelf of the oven heated to 180°C/gas mark 2. Remove from the pan, cool on a cake wire and dust lightly with powdered sugar before serving.