RICH LEMON CHOCOLATE CHIP BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour 10-inch bundt pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
• In a large bowl, using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add cream cheese beating until smooth.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add lemon extract, lemon zest and lemon juice, beating well.
• Mix in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, making three additions of flour mixture and two of buttermilk, just until smooth.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Spread batter in prepared pan, smoothing top.
• Bake in preheated oven for about 70 minutes or until a tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean and cake starts to pull away from sides of pan.
• Let cake cool in pan on a rack for 15 minutes.
• Carefully invert cake into a large plate. Let cool completely.
• Icing: meanwhile, whisk together icing sugar and lemon juice until smooth, adding up to 1 tsp more juice if necessary for desire consistency.
• Set aside until cake is cool.
• Whisk again before drizzling or pouring over top of cake.
• When icing hardens, transfer cake to a serving platter.