Recipes Dream: Bizcocho con Chocolate

This addiction of mine... blogging... is getting a bit under control. See? I haven't been near the computer for 4 days now! Sorry readers, but the truth is that I couldn't focus on anything but my daughter!

She left for the white week (that's how we call here the week they go skiing with the school) and the previous night to her departure she felt sick all night long. She didn't sleep at all (me neither) and in the morning she felt so weak that I didn 't know if it would be a good idea to let her go. Finally she did.

If you are a mom or a dad, you will understand the uneasiness I've been going through all these days... I couldn't blog, I couldn't sleep properly, I couldn't cook... Anyways, today she will be back (the week is actually 3 days) and I feel much better now :D. I know she's been having a wonderful time!

So, this is what I did, something sweet to keep the bitter taste away! There's a couple of Spanish expressions that say: ¡A las penas, puñaladas! or ¡Lo que no mata, engorda! The first means that if sadness comes you should be strong and beat it, fight against it (puñalada means a stab). And the second says... what won't kill you, will make you fat! He, he, love the second one :D

So, here you have a cake that won't kill you!

Get some sugar and cinnamon in your life :D. I'm sending this over to Grace and her Cinnamon Celebration. Please head over her blog: A Southern Grace, for sweet inspiration ;D.

You can still send her your dishes before the 13th!

Ingredients for the cake: 3 eggs, 150 grs + a tea spoon of butter, 140 brown sugar, 3 table spoons of orange liquor, 190 grs of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 table spoon of cocoa powder, 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon and some chocolate chips.

Whisk during 1 minute the 150 grs of butter and the brown sugar in a big bowl. Make sure the butter is soft enough before putting it inside the bowl. Add the eggs one by one and keep on whisking. Add the flour little by little and the baking powder.
Preheat oven at 200ºC.
Separate the dough in two pieces and add to one of them the cocoa powder and the orange liquor. Mix well and reserve.
Take the other part of the dough, add the cinnamon and mix. Pour in a baking recipient (previously rubbed with the butter we had left). Add the chocolate chips and pour the dough with the orange liquor on top.
Bake in the oven for 50 to 60 minutes.