Tasty Tuesday: Chocolate Crumb Cake

Ready to go in the oven

This is a fast, easy dessert and don't let the fact that it doesn't have icing fool you. The cake part is extremely, the moist brown sugar creates a crunchy topping and the chocolate chips add a little bit of extra yumminess. We enjoy this cake as it is, with ice cream or topped with crushed strawberries.

Chocolate Crumb Cake

1 chocolate cake mix, any kind
1 cup water
1 cup oil
4 eggs
1 small box instant vanilla pudding
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1/2 cup brown sugar

Mix first five ingredients and spread in a greased 11 x 16 jelly roll pan. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and brown sugar. Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Variations: use 1 yellow cake mix, with butterscotch pudding and 3/4 cup water, 3/4 cup oil and 4 eggs. Top with 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Baked- and yes, I started cutting it before I remembered to take a picture!

For other recipe ideas, check out Balancing Beauty and Bedlam's Tasty Tuesday, Blessed with Grace's Tempt my Tummy Tuesday, Fudge Ripple's Tuesday Night Supper Club, 33 Shades of Green's Tasty Tuesday, and All the Small Stuff's Tuesday's at the Table.