Chocolate Pecan Butter Bread

½ cup warm water
1 pkg. dry yeast
3½ cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1¼ teaspoon salt
4 eggs, room temp.
1½ sticks butter, softened
1 cup chopped Pecans
6 oz semisweet chocolate chips

Put water in large mixing bowl, sprinkle in yeast. Stir, allow to stand 5 minutes to dissolve. Add flour, sugar, salt, eggs to yeast mixture. Beat vigorously until well blended. Beat in butter in tablespoon size pieces until batter is smooth. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let batter rise to double in bulk. Stir batter down, add Pecans and chocolate chips. Spoon into 2 greased 8½ X 4½ X 3 loaf pans. Fill pans half full. Bake in preheated 350° oven for about 45 minutes. Cool 5 minutes then turn loaves out on racks.