Mocha Coffee Cake - Light - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Topping
    1/2 cup packed brown sugar
    3 tablespoons semi-sweet chocolate chips
    4 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
    Cake
    1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
    1/3 cup vegetable oil
    1/3 cup brewed strong coffee
    1 large egg
    2 large egg whites
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
    1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    2/3 cup low-fat sour cream
Preparation
    Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F Spray a 9-inch square cake pan with Pam.
    Make topping: in a small bowl, stir together brown sugar, chocolate chips and cocoa.
    Make cake: in a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, coffee, egg, egg white and vanilla.
    In another bowl, stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda. With a wooden spoon, stir the dry ingredients into the coffee mixture in batches, alternating with the sour cream, making two additions of dry and one of wet, and stirring just until the mixture is combined. Pour it into a prepared pan. Sprinkle with topping.
    Place the pan in the centre of the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a tester inserted in the centre comes out clean.
    Let cool on a wire rack.

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