Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Pound Cake

I got the basic recipe from "Calling all Cooks" yellow cookbook. My daughter and I were trying to come up with something to enter in for her 4-H baking contest. We just decided to add chocolate chips.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Serves: 15

Ingredients

• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 6  medium eggs
• 3  cups granulated sugar
• 2  cups margarine
• 1  teaspoon vanilla flavoring
• 3  cups cake flour
• 2  cups  milk chocolate chips
• 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar
• 1 1⁄2 cups pecans

Directions

1. Soften and mix 1 pkg of cream cheese and 3 sticks of margarine; stir in sugar. Add eggs and vanilla flavoring; blend until smooth. Stir in cake flour. Blend mixture until doughy texture. Fold in Chocolate chips. Pour in Bundt pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300 degrees.
2. Soften and mix leftover cream cheese a butter. Mix in powered sugar until icing consistency then add pecans. Spoon icing in the middle of cooled bundt cake.