Healthy cooking: Susan Jane White’s brain-boosting walnut, chocolate and pear cake recipe is good enough to pass for breakfast

Walnut, chocolate and pear cake. Photo: Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White

We love sneaky wedges of this walnut, chocolate and pear cake for breakfast, accompanied by black cardamom coffee. Similar to a Danish pastry, there’s just enough fruit to pass as a weekend breakfast.

Unlike a Danish, there’s a consignment of brain fuel in the form of omega-3 in every slice of this cake (thank you flaxseed). My search for omega 3 is determined by some wild menopausal algorithm of late. All the better when it comes with chocolate.