Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
¾ cup milk
one 12-oz package semi-sweet chocolate mini-morsels
10x sugar, optional

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
In large mixer bowl, beat sugar, butter and vanilla until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Stir in mini-morsels. Pour into greased and floured 10-inch fluted tube pan.
Bake 70-80 minutes or until skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Sprinkle with 10x sugar if desired.