Pear Dainties "Farewell feast" or "This looks suspicious"

This receipt my mom has found on the web (in English but the web-site was so epilepsy-unfriendly that I decided to repeat it here. If you want to see the original, please go ahead). I gave them such a good-byeish name because of the occasion for which I baked them (I was quitting my research group). Baking them is fast and easy (you don't even need a mixer) and they look good. And I think that list of products looks pretty, too.

170 g self-raising flour
30 g cocoa powder
200 g sugar powder
150 g butter or margarine, melted
5 egg whites
1 teaspoon pear liqueur
12 canned minipears


I cook in the common dorm kitchen, so my measure is a random clean cup, so I took a bit less then a cup of flour + baking powder. Canned minipears are as rear as white siberian tigers, so I took usual canned pears and cut them in quarters (and a picture of a tiger is here because they are badass). Egg whites should be cold and the melted butter cooled. If you don't have a pear liqueur, mix pear syrup with some vodka and feel happy (well, this is a general recommendation).

So, turn on the oven at 180 C, sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, sugar powder, a bit of salt, spices (I always add cinnamon and muscat, unless otherwise stated), mix well with butter and then add egg whites, one by one, mix very well after each. Add the liqueur, mix again and distribute the dough among 12 baking cups. Put a minipear in each cup. Bake at 180 C for 10 minutes and then at 160 C for 15-20 minutes (till golden-brown or dry tooth-pick).

Before serving, apply some apricot jam on top of a dainty and treat it with a bit of sugar powder and chocolate chips (for technical reasons, I skipped this step). The result looks as if the Big Brother watches you through these pear eyes (as my friend Masha says, if you suffer paranoid schizophrenia it doesn't mean nobody's following you)