Chocolate Swirl Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter or margarine, softened
2 c. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
3 eggs
2 3/4 c. unsifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. buttermilk or sour milk*
1 c. Hershey's syrup
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 c. flaked coconut (optional)

Preparation

Cream butter, sugar and vanilla in a large mixer bowl until light and fluffy.
Add eggs; beat well.
Combine flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda and salt; add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture.
Combine syrup and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda.
Measure 2 cups batter into a small bowl; blend in syrup mixture.
Add coconut to remaining batter; pour into greased and floured 12-cup Bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan.
Pour chocolate batter over vanilla batter in pan; do not mix.
Bake at 350\u00b0 about 70 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.
Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely; glaze or frost as desired.