Chocolate Chip Cake

While I LOVE desserts, I don’t make them that often.  It might appear that way, but I don’t.  It’s hard when there’s just 2 of us – we don’t need to eat it until it’s all gone, and I really hate for dessert to go to waste!    So I usually need an occasion to make something.

This particular cake is YUMMY, even if it is doctored out of the box.  I last made this for a party my neighbor was having – I actually made 2 desserts, one to go with the theme of the party (the chocolate chinese cookies), and this one because I wanted to.

Here it is…

Ingredients:

1 package yellow cake mix

1 package vanilla pudding

4 eggs

1/2 c oil

1 c water

1 tsp vanilla

2/3 c brown sugar

12 oz chocolate chips

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions -

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray a bundt pan with pam.  (The directions I have said to use a spring form pan, and the first time I tried this cake and tried the spring form pan, the cake didn’t cook!  Someone made this for Thanksgiving and used a bundt pan, so I used a bundt pan this last time, and it was PERFECT.)

Mix together cake mix, pudding eggs, oil, water, and vanilla.

In a separate bowl, mix together the topping ingredients – chocolate chips, cinnamon, and brown sugar.

Pour half of the batter mix into the pan, and then half of the topping.  Continue, and end with the topping.  (I’m not really great with splitting the batter and topping in half…I usually have way too much topping at the end.  So I think next time, I’m going to put more of the topping in the middle, which is where I like it, and the remainder on the top [which becomes the bottom of the cake once inverted.])

Bake at 350 for 60 minutes.

Cut and enjoy!

I’m submitting this to Nurit’s cake collection at 1family.friendly.food – check out her blog!  http://www.familyfriendlyfood.com/