Pecan-Chocolate Chip Pound Cake Recipe

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This cake's one I prepare frequently for Sunday dinner. I also make it for church meetings and to take to friends who are sick. It goes a long way—unless you have some real "chocoholics"! I've been cooking as long as I've been married, for almost 30 years. My husband's the director of a Christian youth missionary organization, and our two children are 19 and 17.

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Pecan-Chocolate Chip Pound Cake Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 1 hour 40 min.

Yield: 16-20 Servings

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Ingredients

2-3/4 cups sugar
1-1/4 cups butter, softened
5 eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

In a large bowl, beat sugar, butter (must be very soft but not melted), eggs and almond extract on low just until mixed. Beat on high for 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. On low speed, add flour mixture alternately with milk, mixing just until blended. Fold in chocolate chips.
Sprinkle pecans in the bottom of a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Carefully pour batter over pecans. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 40 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool 20 minutes in pan before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 16-20 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 piece) equals 385 calories, 20 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 85 mg cholesterol, 188 mg sodium, 49 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 5 g protein.

Originally published as Pecan-Chocolate Chip Pound Cake in Country Woman May/June 1993, p31