Dark Chocolate Pear Cake

We were given a bag of home grown pears and I have been trying to find different ways to use them. I've modified several recipes to come up with this one, and it is my favorite use of the pears so far.

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup Special Dark Hershey's Cocoa
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 heaping tsp ground cardamom
1/2 cup butter, unsalted - at room temp
4 oz cream cheese - at room temp
2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp orange extract
2 large green pears (or roughly 2 1/2 cups) - coursely grated
1/2 cup milk (or cream)

Sift together the flours, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cardamom. Set aside.
Beat together the butter, cheese, sugar & extracts until smooth and lightly fluffy. Continue beating, adding the eggs one at a time. Fold in pears & milk. Stir this mixture together with the dry ingredients.
Pour into any of the following greased pans & bake at 350.
Muffins - 16 to 18 minutes
Mini Muffins - 10 to 12 minutes
Loaf (8.5 x 4.5 inch) - 38 to 42 minutes
Bundt (10 inch) - 45 to 50 minutes
Any of these are great sprinkled with powdered sugar or drizzled with a glaze (mix 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 tbs milk & 1 tsp vanilla - whisk smooth)

Note: I also tried this with Green Apples. It is amazing! Substitute 3 to 4 apples for the pears - peeled and coursely grated.