Chocolate-Orange Cake

Photo: flickr user dospaz

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

cup butter (1 stick)

cup orange liqueur

cup water

1 18.25 ounce devil's food cake mix

8 ounces sour cream

1 4 ounce pack instant chocolate fudge puddi

4 eggs

cup vegetable oil

cup water

cup coffee liqueur

2 tablespoons grated orange peel

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 12 ounce pac chocolate chips

Powdered sugar

Preparation

Combine first 4 ingredients in heavy small saucepan. Stir over low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves, about 3 minutes. Increase heat and boil 2 minutes. Cool completely.

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour 10-cup bundt pan. Using electric mixer, beat cake mix and next 8 ingredients until well blended, about 3 minutes. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until toothpick inserted near center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 1 hour. Immediately spoon sugar and butter mixture over cake in pan. Let cake stand 30 minutes.

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

Serves 10.