Cinnamon crumb cake with chocolate chips and pecans

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Chef :

Jon

Cinnamon crumb cake with chocolate chips and pecans

Stumbled across this very easy recipe on the Internet years ago and has been my go-to cake recipe ever since. Looks like nothing but it's as compulsively eatable as it is easy to make. Recipe presented as in the original except for the chocolate chips and pecans, which were by royal command of the girlfriend. And trust me, the chocolate chips are very much there, you just can't see them under the cinnamon crumb topping.

Ingredient

1/3 cup

all purpose flour

1/2 cup

sugar

2 1/2 tsp

baking powder

1/2 tsp

salt

1/4 cup

vegetable oil (I used canola)

3/4 cup

milk

egg

1/2 cup

chocolate chips, lightly coated in flour

1/4 cup

butter, softened

3/4 tsp

cinnamon

1/2 cup

pecans, toasted and chopped

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Preheat oven to 375f/190c. Grease and flour a 9" cake tin (tap out any excess flour), and set aside.

* Step 2

In a large bowl, whisk together dry ingredients.

* Step 3

In a separate bowl, beat together wet ingredients.

* Step 4

Add wet ingredients to the dry and whisk until smooth. Note: you can add the chocolate chips at this point and mix them in, though I prefer to top the batter with them after I pour it into the cake tin.

* Step 5

For the cinnamon topping, simply combine all the ingredients.

* Step 6

Pour cake batter into the pan. Then, if you haven't added them yet, top with chocolate chips (coating the chips in flour suspends them in the batter and keeps them from all sinking to the bottom), followed by the cinnamon mix. DO NOT top with the pecans yet because they will burn in the cooking (I speak from experience).

* Step 7

Bake for 20-25 minutes. When fully cooked (I do the clean toothpick test), remove from the oven and place on a wire rack. Top it with pecans while still hot. Let the cake cool fully before serving.

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