astray recipes: Chocolate-orange cake

Categories: Desserts
Yield: 10 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 cup	Sugar
½	Stick unsalted butter
¼ cup	Grand Marnier
¼ cup	Water
1 pack	(18.5 oz) devil's food cake mix
8 ounces	Sour cream
1 pack	(4 oz) instant chocolate pudding mix
4 mediums	Eggs
½ cup	Vegetable oil
½ cup	Water
¼ cup	Coffee liqueur
2 tablespoons	Grated orange zest
1 teaspoon	Cinnamon
1	12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips
	Powdered sugar

Combine first 4 ingredients in heavy saucepan. Stir over low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil 2 minutes. Cool completely.

Preheat ovens to 350F. Grease and flour 10 cup bundt or tube pan. Using Mixer, beat cake mix and next 8 ingredients until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips and pour in prepared pan. Bake until toothpick inserted near center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached or around 1 hour.

Immediatly spoon sugar and butter mixture over cake in pan. Let stand 30 minutes.

Turn cake out onto platter and cool completely. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar.

NOTES : I know the thought of using a "mix" is enough to turn some people away, but if you are willing to try this, I guarantee you will love it! Try substituting the coffee liqueur for the Grand Marnier for a more intensely flavored cake.

Recipe by: Dan Taylor

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #790 by Dan Taylor <dant69@...> on Sep 19, 1997

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