Chocolate Fire Cake

Submitted by dicentra

"Cooking Light 2001"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• 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.

Reviews

[RecipeJedi]

This was awsome - loved the heat wth the chocolate and will make this for a fair in november, all the family loved this cake and the drizzle is a good finish. A keeper and will let u know how we do in the fair.