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From: Nancy,.SanFran

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
Recipe By : California Culinary Academy

3/4 cup butter -- softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon orange rind -- grated
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
confectioner's sugar

1. Preheat oven to 325° F. In large bowl of electric mixer, cream butter and sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in orange rind and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

2. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk, stirring with a spoon after each addition just until blended. Fold in chocolate. Spread in a lightly floured, greased 5- by 9-inch loaf pan.

3. Bake until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean (1 to 1-1/4 hours). Let stand in pan about 10 minutes; then turn out onto a rack to complete cooling.

4. Sift confectioners' sugar over the cake before slicing.