Chocolate Fire Cake

Cooking Light 2001

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup sugar
• 1⁄3 cup butter, softened
• 1  large egg
• 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 6  tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1  teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  ground red pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup 1% low-fat milk
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
•  baking spray with flour
• 2  tablespoons  semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350*.
2. Beat sugar and butter at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 5 minutes).
3. Add egg, beating well, Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
4. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk. Combine milk and vanilla.
5. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
6. Pour batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with baking spray. Bake at 350* for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
7. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool cake completely on wire rack.
8. Place chips in a small heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag, and seal. Submerge bag in very hot water until chips melt, or microwave at HIGH 1 minute or until melted. Snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over cake.