Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

So I bought this awesome new cookbook a couple of weeks ago, and I've been dying to try it out. Look, even the cover is awesome.

It's called Bake! Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking and it's by Nick Malgieri. There are step-by-step instructions and pictures for everything. That has been the most frusting part of learning to bake- the fact that most cookbooks and recipes assume a base of knowledge that I don't have. Not so with this cookbook!

So today, on a relaxing Saturday, I picked a recipe that I already had the ingredients for and went to town. And I am so glad that I did.

Because this, my friends, is delicious. So I decided to share the recipe with you and totally promote this book, because I love it and it is awesome.

Your ingredients: Flour, Butter, Eggs, Chocolate Chips, Baking Powder, Salt and Vanilla (oops again, that vanilla never wants to get in the picture)

First, combine your dry ingredients and mix them together in the mixer briefly on low, about 30 seconds. Then, add the butter, which should be very soft, and mix it on low until it's completely combined and looks like this.

Then, in a small bowl whisk together your eggs and vanilla. Make sure your eggs are room temperature, otherwise they'll make the batter seperate.

Add the egg mixture in 1/3 at a time, mixing for about 1 minute on medium speed in between each addition.

Fold in the chocolate chips with a rubber spatula, then just pour into your pan, smooth over the top, and bake!

Yum!

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

From Bake! Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking

5 cups flour

2 sticks butter, very soft

1 tbsp. baking powder

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup chocolate chips

5 eggs, room temperature

Preheat the oven to 325°. Thouroughly grease a loaf pan.

In an electric mixer, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and mix on low for 30 seconds. Add the butter and mix until thouroughly combined and no butter chunks remain.

In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs and vanilla. Add in 1/3 of the egg mixture, then beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Repeat until all of the eggs are mixed in and it is smooth.

Fold in the chocolate chips by hand, then pour the batter into the loaf pan and smooth the top. Bake for 60 minutes.