Chocolate Fire Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

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

Recipe

• 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.