Ingredients
3/4 cups flour blend (make ahead flour blend: 1 cup all-purpose unbleached white flour, 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1 cup wheatgerm, unsweetened)

1 tsp baking powder

2 T unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Matt, being the lucky recipient of a client's Harry and David gift basket overflow, brought home the most incredible pears I've ever tasted the other day. They were huge and had a perfect texture and flavor, a kind of Comice on steroids.

These extraordinary pears are sold under the name Royal Riviera, but they taste like a Comice because they are a Comice. It's just that the climate and soil conditions of Oregon's Rogue River Valley, where the Royal Riviera is grown, produce a Comice so outstanding it had to be trademarked.