Can I Make The Sauce For Chocolate Pear Pudding Without Coffee?

Our answer

Nigella's Chocolate Pear Pudding from NIGELLA EXPRESS) has pears blanketed by a chocolate sponge and served with a chocolate sauce. The sauce is a combination of chocolate, cream and coffee.

The coffee helps to enhance the chocolate in the sauce, rather than being a particularly strong flavour itself. Ingredients such as coffee, vanilla and salt can help to bring out the flavour of chocolate. If you need to avoid caffiene than you can use a decaffinated coffee instead. If you want to avoid the coffee completely then we suggest replacing it with 120ml of water and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.