French Chocolate Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients

    * 1/2 cup butter, softened
    * 1/2 cup butter- flavored shortening or margarine
    * 11/2 cups sugar
    * 5 eggs
    * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    * 3 cups flour
    * 2 teaspoons baking powder
    * 1 teaspoon baking soda
    * 1 cup sour cream
    * TOPPING:
    * 1/2 cup sugar
    * 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    * 2 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, grated
    * Powdered sugar

Directions

   1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10- or 12 inch tube pan or Bundt pan.
   2. In large bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter, shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Then beat in vanilla.
   3. In a seperate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream. Mix well.
   4. For the topping:
   5. In a small bowl, mix sugar, cinnamon and grated chocolate.
   6. Put one- third to one- half of the thick batter in the bottom of the prepared pan. Sprinkle batter with half the topping. Repeat with the rest of the batter and topping. Run a knife through the topping and batter once to marble-ize the cake.
   7. Bake about 55 minutes or until toothpick or knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool pan for 10 minutes or more before inverting on a serving plate. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.