• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 cups flour
• 1 8 oz container of sour cream
• 1 12 oz package of semi sweet chocolate chips
• Cinnamon sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a tube pan.

Cream sugar and butter with a mixer on medium to high speed until the mixture is creamy and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each egg. Add vanilla and mix.  Set aside.

Combine baking soda, baking powder, and flour in another bowl.

Alternating between dry ingredients and sour cream, add all the remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips and the cinnamon sugar. I usually alternate between the dry ingredients and the sour cream three times each.

Pour half of batter into the tube pan and spread to cover the bottom of the pan.  Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar until the batter is completely covered.  Sprinkle with 6 oz of chocolate chips.  Pour the remaining batter on top and spread carefully to cover the first layer of cinnamon and sugar.  Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar again until batter is completely covered and top with remaining chocolate chips. 

Bake for 40 - 50 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean.  Remove from oven and cool at least 15 minutes in the pan.  Remove from pan, slice and serve.

**Note: if you have never used a tube pan before remember to pick it up from the sides and not from tube or the batter will spill out all over the place and make a giant mess.***