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.
OMG this is the extreme version of pound cake.More power to you.You go girl.
You should patent this. Bananas in between layers of chocolate chip cake. With honey or PB. Toasted.
WOW!
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?
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