Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

Ingredients:

250g Cream Cheese (Philadelphia)
1 1/2 Cup Sugar
4 Eggs
1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla
3/4 Cup Margarine
2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Cup Dark Chocolate Chips
Butter for greasing

Method:

1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees celsius and lightly grease a loaf tin (26cm x 14 cm x 7.5cm)  with butter. Mix the cream cheese, margarine, vanilla, sugar and  in a mixer at medium speed. Beat until it becomes a creamy texture. Add the eggs one at a time, at low speed.

2. Sift the flour with the baking powder and add slowly to the mixture at low speed. Afterwards, add the chocolate chips and don't over mix. Put into the buttered tin.

3.  Bake the loaf mixture at 180 degress celsius for 1 hour and 20 minutes.  Cool on rack and serve.