Irish Cream Pound Cake with a firm, close crumb, Irish Cream flavor with a hint of dark chocolate.
That is what I am dreaming of. Perfect for morning, noon, or night.
With my cup of hot coffee or glass of milk. Perfection.
Chocolate Chip Irish Cream Pound Cake
Cooking Light, April 2007
¼ cup semisweet chocolate mini chips
1 teaspoon cake flour
2 ¾ cups cake flour (about 11 ounces)
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¾ 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
¾ cup Irish cream liqueur
Baking spray with flour
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 325°.Combine chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon flour in a small bowl; toss.Lightly spoon 2 ¾ cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.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. Makes 16 servings.
1 serving equals:
Calories: 308
Fat: 10.1
Fiber: .6
WW Points: 7
RecipeGirl
Looks like a wonderful dense pound cake. I LOVE a little Irish Cream now and then 🙂
Meg
What a delicious looking pound cake! Love the Irish Cream and chocolate chip combination.
Elyse
Oh my goodness! I love that firm, dense crumb. This cake looks so delicious--with a beautiful studding of yummy chocolate. I'm seriously debating dropping everything I'm doing and going into the kitchen to make this. Looks seriously delicious!
Patsyk
That's a perfect pound cake! A little Irish creme never hurt anyone... only helps if you ask me!
cindy
This looks wonderful! Your photos are great!
Barbara Bakes
Great pictures! The cake looks delicious!
Melissa
St. Patrick's Day is coming up! This would be perfect for breakfast that day. 🙂
Bunny
What a beautiful cake, perfect for St Patty's Day!
Val
What a terrific looking cake. You're right, it would be good for breakfast too. Yum! Thanks for the great photo. ;o}
Tangled Noodle
I don't think Mr. Noodle will mind one bit if I snag his bottle of Bailey's for this purpose. Fantastic!
Laura
Wish I'd seen this one before the weekend--my grandma LOVED Bailey's, so much so that we buried her with an open bottle (not that she overindulged, I just realized how that sounded). We also all shared a few mini bottles at the service. It would have fit perfectly.
AK Mom
This pound cake looks so yummy! Irish Cream and Chocolate...what a wonderful combination! 🙂
Ingrid
Mmmm, I'm going to go to bed dreaming of that with a tall glass of icy cold milk!
~ingrid
Mama Chicken
mmmmmm. Irish Cream. Looks so moist and yummy!
Bob
Oh wow. That looks amazing! I love Irish cream and pound cake, putting the two together can only be good!
Bellini Valli
This cake looks incredibly moist HoneyB:D
Lureena
OMG! I do love me some pound cake! Especially with a nice cup of coffee. This looks and sound so good right now!
Marthe
Yum!!!! This looks soooo good!!
Daily Spud
Perfect with a Baileys coffee I'd say!
pigpigscorner
Looks so dense and moist! The texture and taste must be wonderful!
Donna-FFW
Irish Cream , chocolate chips in this gorgeous poundcake!! I so KNOW what Im bringing to the St Paddys Dayparty. It Looks GORGEOUS, and I just know it's DELICIOOUS, just know it!
The Other Tiger
Oh, that's inspiring! My husband's birthday is on St. Patrick's Day and he threatened to just ask for pound cake for his birthday cake when I was asking him what he wanted...maybe he should get just that!
Christy
This looks delicious-so moist and yummy! Perfect to enjoy in the morning with my coffee.
Vickie LeBlanc
Yes, yes, with a nice cup of coffee first thing at 5:30 a.m.
natalia
Mamma mia che bello !! Love
Creative One
Irish cream and chocolate, what a delicious combination. I could go for a piece of that cake and a glass of milk. Yummy!!!!
teresa
That looks wonderful! How comforting!
Robin Sue
This reminds me that I need to buy more cake flour. It does make such a nicer cake. I saw on Tastespotting that someone had made their own Irish Cream, can you imagine! This cake looks great and I really like the chocolate chips in there too!
HoneyB
Robin Sue! That person who made the Irish Cream was my friend Jessie from The Hungry Mouse! http://www.thehungrymouse.com/home/2009/02/27/homemade-irish-cream/
Susie
Ohhhh my goodness! Really and truly it made my mouth water.
Maria
The cake looks wonderful!!
Spryte
That looks GREAT!!!
Katie
Yum I love Irish Cream anything!
noble pig
You are so speaking my language here! How awesome is this!
Reeni♥
How delicious! I wish I had a piece to go with my afternoon tea. YUMMMMYY!!
Katy
Just how do you do it? Everything you make always looks so good!
Flourchild
I can just all most taste this through the screen. What a great cake!
Debbie
Looks fantastic! I have used Irish Cream in Brownies and love it. I am going to make this cake soon......love different pound cake variations.
Nick
I adore pound cake and this one looks super buttery. Fat free cream cheese? I love the stuff but almost seems unnecessary what with all the butter, although it certainly can't hurt! Is it actually preferred to regular cream cheese in the recipe or is that just to lighten it up?
duodishes
Irish cream and desserts were meant to be bff4e. It's just a fact! Nice idea to put it in a dense, buttery cake with chocolate. The chocolate is the key. 🙂 We just did a chocolate mint cake with Bailey's, and it was a wonder! Bailey's needs a bakery.
Linda
Shelby, This looks so moist! I will have to try this. And with Irish Cream....mmmmmm!!
Anonymous
The "REAL Donna" says,
This looks like a lovely low calorie version of a rich pound cake. So great for a little indulgence. I guess I will make this for my husband on St. Patrick's Day! Thanks for the recipe~ 🙂
Pam
So moist and tasty, yet only 7 points - love it!
Pamela
I loved this recipe. I've made it twice and it always has rave reviews! It looks beautiful.
April
This looks fantastic! Will be making this very soon!
Susan
That looks amazing! I love Irish Cream.