Chocolate and Pear cake

Even though I'm getting sick of the sight of chocolate, I'm going to a gathering at my parents tomorrow for a Christmas knees up. Had a few pears to use up so I had a look on the reliable a Good Food website, Christmas edition and came across this beauty
Ingredients
250g butter melted
250g Demerara sugar
200g SR Flour
1 tsp mixed spice
1tsp cinnamon
50g whole meal Flour
100g Almonds( ground)
1tsp baking powder
200g nuts( I used almonds, Brazil's, pecans and hazelnuts )
100g chopped dark chocolate
3 large eggs
1tsp almond extract
2 pears

For topping
300ml double cream
100g dark choc chips
100g milk choc chips
Extra nuts

Preheat oven to 180/ 160fan. Line and butter a 20cm round cake tin.
Melt butter, then add eggs and almond extract and whisk together.
Put the flours, sugar,spices,baking powder, almonds,nuts and chocolate in a large mixing bowl and combine.
Add the melted butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.Peel, core and dice the pears and add to the batter.
Put into the prepared tin and bake for 45 mins. Remove from the oven and cover with foil and bake for a further 20mins. A skewer should come out clean. Allow to cool in the tin . Once completely cool, remove from cake tin.
In the meantime make the topping, melt the cream and chocolate over a low heat, once glossy and smooth all to cool in the fridge. Once slightly hardened you can then put on the cooled cake.