Chocolate Chip Irish Cream Pound Cake
(from jerseyjenny’s recipe box)
CALORIES 308(30% from fat); FAT 10.1g (sat 5.9g,mono 2.5g,poly 0.5g); PROTEIN 5g; CHOLESTEROL 59mg; CALCIUM 60mg; SODIUM 231mg; FIBER 0.6g; IRON 2.3mg; CARBOHYDRATE 48.9g
Source: Cooking Light April 2007
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cook time: 60 minutes
Serves 16 people
Categories: cake, chocolate chips, cooking light
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate minichips
- 1 teaspoon cake flour
- 2 3/4 cups cake flour (about 11 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup fat-free cream cheese, softened
- 10 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup Irish cream liqueur
- Baking spray with flour
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Directions
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Preheat oven to 325°.
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Combine chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon flour in a small bowl; toss.
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Lightly spoon 2 3/4 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
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Place cream cheese and butter in a bowl; beat with a mixer at high speed to blend. Add granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla; beat until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time; beat well after each addition. Beat on high speed 1 minute. With mixer on low, add flour mixture and liqueur alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat well after each addition. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour batter into a 12-cup Bundt pan coated with baking spray. Bake at 325° for 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. Sift powdered sugar over cake.