CHOCOLATE FIRE CAKE

Chocolate Fire Cake image

Provided by dicentra

Categories Dessert

Time 50m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 13

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

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350*.
Beat sugar and butter at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 5 minutes).
Add egg, beating well, Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
Combine flour and next 5 ingredients, stirring well with a whisk. Combine milk and vanilla.
Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
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.
Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool cake completely on wire rack.
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.