It’s established. This chocolate chip pound cake is comfort food. You know why? Because I ate this cake for three meals straight. Only this. Just so you know I’m not exaggerating, I will tell you the sequence of events. I ate this for dinner the evening I made it. Then, for breakfast the next morning, slathered with Nutella and sliced bananas in a sandwich (a fulfilling breakfast, to say the least). And then more slices of the chocolate chip pound cake later for lunch.
Most people have their favourite recipe for pound cake. And how drastically different can it get, anyway? It’s POUND cake. So this cake is clearly not something people would gush about and say “OMG I have got to add this to my list!” But what makes this humble cake something quite wicked is how its limits are stretched to make a delicious sandwich. You could even toast the slices slightly before spreading the Nutella. Here is how:
Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
Yield: 1 large loaf
Adapted From: Baking From My Home To Yours
2 cups / 240g all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (omit if you’re using salted butter)
2 sticks / 225g butter
1 cup / 200g granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ – 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350°F/175°C. Butter a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
- In a stand mixer or with a hand held mixer, beat together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs 1 at a time, beating for a couple of minutes in between additions.
- Add the vanilla extract.
- Either fold in the dry ingredients by hand with a spatula (always better, so you don’t end up over mixing) or reduce the speed and mix in the flour.
- Finally, stir in the chocolate chips.
- Bake the cake for 40-60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Once baked, let the cake rest for about 15 minutes before you remove it from the pan to transfer to a cooling rack.
- Slice it. Eat it.
If you liked this chocolate chip cake, don’t forget to check out my Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe!
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I seriously feel like I can taste this. My lips are smacking and my mouth is watering. It is a rainy day here and this looks soooo comforting. I wish I didn't have to run all those errands and could make this instead.
Shaheen! That.is.sinful!!
Lovely !! Looks so good..I dont care too much for sweet stuff, but this looks really nice with a hot cuppa tea…
you are unbelievable! rich pound cake slathered with nutella and sliced bananas. ooof!
Hhehe thank you, guys! Looks like the post stuck the right chord.
You should patent this. Bananas in between layers of chocolate chip cake. With honey or PB. Toasted.
WOW!
OMG this is the extreme version of pound cake.More power to you.You go girl.
Gosh! I love this. How much more sinful can it get.
oh that looks so decadent.
This is right up my alley!! Forget the ham and cheese. This is my new sandwich.
Hi.
I was writing this down in my recipe book and I noticed that in the directions portion #2 says to add salt but on the ingredients it is not listed. Just wanted to know how much?
Thank you.
OMG! what lovely clicks, you are teasing me!!!
Hey there, thanks for pointing it out. Just rectified it. I usually use salted butter so almost always skip the salt while baking.
The cake looks awesome! This reminds me that I need to bake the eggless pound cake that has been on my "to do list" for so long. Chocolate chips look so alluring in your cake.
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Always looking for a new vehicle for Nutella. Can't wait to try it!
Yum! That sandwich is out of control!
Ohh wow. This may be "just" pound cake – but it is a mighty mighty delicious looking one with gorgeous photos! I love the idea of making a banana sandwich out of it
mmmm, and I could even slather it with peanut butter and tell myself it's healthy!
I like how you think, M.
um, this made me drool. and i totally approve of this being the sole item in three of my meals.
I just stumbled here while looking for chocolate chip cake recipes. OMG this looks SOOOOO GOOOOOD!!
Jeannette: I like that we think alike
Mariam: Thank youuuu!
I stumbled here while looking for chocolate chip cake recipes. I followed the recipe to the last full stop but all the chocolate chips sank to the bottom, any idea why this happened?
Hey Anon, I have no idea why the chocolate chips sank for you because I've tried this recipe several times and it has always turned out perfectly. Maybe next time you can toss the chocolate chips in flour before folding them in?
I mixed the chocolate chips into the last portion of my flour mix before adding it, and my chips did not sink. I just learned this trick, and am glad it works!
superb recipe. Its make so easy. I will tried it. Thanks.
OK, I just made this and it is cooling, the whole house smelling amazing and comforting both. My 2.9 year old daughter helped me, sifting the dry ingredients (a bit with her fingers) and practicing egg cracking (so it may have a shell or two). She adored licking the beater, but dang, showed recurring signs of her mild egg allergy, lots of little red bumps, now gone. My Mom arrived, so 3 generations of women are about to go ooh and ah and give it a taste. I ran out of vanilla, btw, so I used almond extract. It smells that kind of good almond perfume-y which I also like, but I wish I had the vanilla for true comfort smells.
Hey! How come your chocolate chips looks so large. The one I buy from Crawford are so much smaller. Where can I get bigger ones from?
Thanks so much for the recipe! I doubled it and baked in in a half sheet pan for my nephew’s Johnny Test birthday cake. It turned out very delicious. I think I may have overbaked it a tiny bit but that didn’t change the taste. Also, I used the mini chocolate chips – so adorable!
I was just wondering if the chocolate chips could be substituted for fruit. I was thinking cut up strawberries unless you have another pound cake recipe?
I will be trying this first with the chocolate chips though. Then I’ll experiment.
Hey Liz! I made this a few days ago and we devoured it in no time. I’ve always used chocolate chip or either left it plain. I’m worried that strawberries being so high in water content might make it mushy. Raspberries seem like a safer option to go with. Too bad that we don’t get any here except frozen, which comes at an astronomical price.
Aw – I’m sorry to hear that about raspberries. But thank you for the tip – I didn’t think about it getting soggy with the water from the fruit.
I need to find my bread pan, but as soon as I do, I’m making this. It’ll be with almond flour and vegan chocolate chips – kind of on a low carb diet – but I bet it’ll be good. I’ll tell you how it is after I make it.
Hi. I am here first time. choco chips cake looks yummy. i am definitely going to try it. You have a wonderful blog and i have a lot of catching up to do.
heey i love this website and i also love cooking so this is perfect for me please keep posting lots of recipies so i can cook more and more
Hi, i tried making this last nite but burnt the top. hehe But the inside did not look like the picture. It was not bread looking yellow. How did you make the top so smooth with the chocolate chips still poking out? They did not melt.
I just stumbled upon this recipe while googling for chocolate chip cake. I tweaked it a bit with cocoa powder and white chips. Heavenly. This is a print and keep recipe!
Hey shaheen! I am so glad I found u. Absolutely love your blog. And the pics are amazing makes me drool. Have been wanting to bake for a long time , finally the time has come. My kids love chocolate as with any kid. So I have been trying to bake some goodies for them.tried your choco chip cookies and this choco chip cake, and I must say I was impressed.my kids loved it, n the idea of spreading them with nutella n bananas…mmmm just heavenly. Going to try every one on that recipe list as n when I can. I can’t thank you enough !
I have been looking for a chocolate chip cake recipe like this forvever!!!!! now i finally found one tht acutually looks AMAZING!!!!! i can not wait to try it!!!1
Hey! This look amazing, I’m so excited to make it! I was just wondering, the recipe doesn’t include sugar…can the pound cake be eaten alone without any fillings (nuttela and banana)? Will it still taste as good?
Hahahahahahahha just kidding. I mis read the recipe, there is sugar! :3 so sorry
I actually only put it in for 25 mins and it was ready as i did the skewer test and it tastes delicious !
hey..i want to make this cake for my mom on her birthday.. i loved ur recipe but i am confused about the temperature at which the cake should be baked so that it is perfect…please help me..
I have made this twice now and my husband loves it. However after 60mins the cake is still raw in the middle and I have to cook it for an additional 25mins.
Hi, this cake looks amazing, Im wanting to make this for a birthday, if I use a standard circular cake tin do you think it will be ok?
Thanks
Of course it will! Just keep an eye on the cake for a possible change in the baking time depending on the size of your tin.
is the butter suppose to be softened or melted
Softened.
Hi,I did everything you said to do but the middle is doughy and i did it for 60 minutes it was good but i had to cut the ends off.What do you thimk is wrong?
Maybe your oven wasn’t hot enough. Maybe it wasn’t preheated enough. Maybe the oven heats unevenly. So many possibilites. Hard to put my finger on anything when I’m not there to see how it’s done!
Loved it, it’s delicious! Exactly what I was craving for!
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Greetings from Brazil.
Yummmm!!
Just happened to find this page while searching for chocolate chip cake recipes, so I decided to make it when I had few friends coming over and everyone loved it!
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This is my now my favorite food blog
Thanks and Keep sharing
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