Chocolate Chip Pound Cake recipe made with pantry staples. It’s easy, elegant and incredible, taking just 10 minutes hands on time to make with the irresistible glaze! It’s a thick, buttery, moist and dense classic with a twist.
With fall just around the corner, I must be subconsciously storing like a squirrel in preparation for cooler weather because I can’t stop baking no bake desserts. We have been making them all summer, but it’s time to turn the oven on for a little baking therapy!
I adapted my ever popular Pound Cake recipe into a Chocolate Chip Pound Cake that the girls couldn’t keep their hands off of! It’s so good, I couldn’t tell them no when they wanted to have it again for breakfast.
If you love chocolate chip everything, you’ll love this easy Chocolate Chip Pound Cake recipe! It’s so easy – it takes just 5 minutes hands on time and even less for a crowd to deplete!
You can make this Chocolate Chip Pound Cake in a loaf pan, but I used this jubilee loaf pan to take it up a notch. The glaze drizzles beautifully and it feels like an elegant dessert, even if it is effortless. Shhhh, no one has to know! Either way, it makes a beautiful dessert.
Chocolate Chip Pound Cake is delicious with my classic glaze or cream cheese glaze – it’s completely up to you! Either way, it’s a decadent treat!
If you want to skip my tips and tricks, you can scroll below for the printable recipe card with nutrition facts, but honestly, I highly recommend you scroll right past those…some things you can’t {or shouldn’t} put a number on.
If you’re looking for the best pound cake recipe, you’ve found not only one, but a series of fabulous desserts with more coming in the next couple weeks!
- Pound Cake
- Cinnamon Pound Cake
- Lemon Pound Cake
- Brown Sugar Pound Cake
- Pumpkin Pound Cake {coming soon}
- Apple Pound Cake {coming soon}
Basically, it’s time to give up on waistbands and embrace all that fall has to offer!
What kind of Chocolate Chips Should I Use for Chocolate Chip Pound Cake?
Semi-Sweet morsels will offer the most classic taste, but milk chocolate also work well.
What Kind of Pan Should I use to Make Pound Cake?
You can use a standard loaf pan or a decorative loaf pan like I used.
Now onto the irresistable Chocolate Chip Pound Cake recipe that everyone will be asking for!

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
Ingredients
Instructions
- Grease 1 lb loaf pan and preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, beat butter until light in color {about 3 minutes}. Gradually incorporate sugar and beat until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time and blend on low.
- Alternate adding flour and milk, add vanilla until smooth.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour into bread pan and bake one hour twenty minutes.
Recipe Notes
Fill pan 1" from top, use any excess in a small baking dish or discard.
Use the toothpick test to test if it's done.
This looks like the most perfect pound cake ever. We love adding chocolate chips to all the things and cannot wait to make this.
I have to make this and take it to our next family gathering. It’s absolutely gorgeous and delicious looking!
I was just thinking you’d had lots of baked treats on here lately! 😊 I do have a question. What do you use to grease your pan? I am forever dealing with beautiful bundt-style pans that leave parts of the cake or loaf inside! So frustrating! This looks delicious. I’m definitely making it soon!
Williams Sonoma offers a great spray but I just use Pam. It works well every time!
This is beautiful! Where did you get the pan?
Thank you, Sarah! You can purchase it here and it’s currently 20% off!
Looks delicious! I am a sucker for pound cake!
Looks so perfect! Definitely a must try!
Oh this looks so perfect!
I don’t see the 20% discount on the pans when I click your link…what am I missing? Thanks!
It must have just been over the holiday weekend 🙁
Such a gorgeous pound cake! My family would love it!!
We love Pound Cake to begin with but adding chocolate chips pushes this over the top! Love it.
LOVE this cake. And next time I’ll be buying that decorative pan. So pretty!
This pound cake looks so delicious! That glaze looks and sounds so amazing.
I love a good pound cake! I can’t wait to make this soon!