coffee chocolate chip pound cake
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Coffee Chocolate-Chip Pound Cake
Author: Deeba, passiontateaboutbaking.com
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
- ⅞ cup butter; room temperature
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup granular sugar (or vanilla sugar)
- 1½ cups plain flour
- ½ cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- 2 tbsp. instant coffee
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 10″ bundt pan. Drop in a few coffee beans if you like. They look nice when you turn out the cake.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Sift together the two flours, baking powder and salt.
- Beat the butter & sugar well till light & fluffy.
- Beat in eggs 1 by 1, beating well after each addition. (She sometimes beatsthem altogether)
- Beat in essence and coffee, and continue beating till the coffee dissolves (1-2 minutes).
- On low speed, beat in the flour, bit by bit, till well incorporated (4-5 goes). Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Turn into prepared pan and bake for approx 1 hour / till done. (If top seems to be getting too brown, loosely cover top with foil until done.)
- Leave in pan for 10 minutes, and then turn it out on rack to cool completely.