Pear and halva crumble loaf with pecans, honey & maple

Loaf

• 100 gms butter I always use salted even if the recipe says unsalted
• ½ cup honey
• ¼ cup maple syrup or 1/4 cup honey or maple if you prefer
• 2 large free-range eggs
• ¼ cup milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 150 g halva crumbled
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 Tbsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 2 – 3 large pears about 500gms in total peeled, cored and chopped
• ½ cup pecans finely chopped

Crumble topping

• 40 gms salted butter melted
• ½ cup pecan/almond flour or regular flour
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar I used muscovado
• 2 Tbsp cocoa nibs
• ¼ cup pecans 30g chopped
• Sprinkle sea salt flakes such as Maldon