Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Cake #recipe from Molly MacRae

 

My husband loves snickerdoodle cookies. I love chocolate chips in almost anything. This cake is the perfect combination of both and hits all the right spots. The crunch of sugary cinnamon on top and bottom (and sides if you’re lucky enough to have a corner or edge piece) is a lovely touch. Enjoy a piece for dessert or with a cup of tea or coffee while you’re reading a good book.  

 Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Cake

(Adapted from the King Arthur Baking Company which adapted it from Snacking Bakes by Yasameen Arefi-Afshar.)

 

Ingredients

3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 eggs

3/4 cup sour cream

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1/2 cup chocolate chips

 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F with rack in center. Grease 8-inch square pan then line with 2 pieces of parchment paper, making a sling (really, you don’t want to skip this step) and lightly grease parchment (again, you really want to do this).

In a small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons of the sugar and the cinnamon. Sprinkle bottom and sides of pan with about half of this mixture.

In a large bowl, whisk remaining sugar and eggs until pale and foamy (takes only a minute). Add sour cream, oil, and salt and whisk until mixed and smooth.

Whisk in baking powder and baking soda (I always rub the powder and soda through a fine mesh strainer in case of lumps – seems like there are always lumps in one or the other). Fold in flour and chocolate chips, mixing until combined.

Pour batter into prepared pan, smooth top, and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until puffed and golden, and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean (or with a bit of melted chocolate on it). Let cake cook in pan on a rack about 15 minutes. Use the parchment paper sling to lift the cake out of the pan and onto the rack to finish cooling before cutting.

 

 

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When widowed folklorist Maureen Nash visits a legendary North Carolina barrier island shell shop, she discovers its resident ghost pirate and the mystery of a local’s untimely death . . .

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The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction and Guideposts. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction.

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