Chocolate Chip Swirl Cake

Today's post is going to a quick one.  My friend is in a feisty mood again this morning and my 4 year old is home sick.  It has been quite a morning, but, I wanted to share this cake.   It doesn't take much to make and it's SO good.
* Coating the chips before adding is suppose to prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the cake, mine still sunk! But, the cake was still delicious  and I can't figure out what I did wrong!  Any ideas? *

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Ingredients:

1 boxed vanilla cake mix, plus ingredients

3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1/4 cup chocolate syrup

vanilla frosting ( canned or homemade)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray 13 x 9 baking dish with non stick cooking spray.  Scoop 1 tablespoon of dry cake mix and mix with 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips.  Set aside.   Prepare remainder of cake mix according to the directions on the box.  Once batter is well mixed, stir in coated chocolate chips.  Measure out 1 cup of prepared batter in a separate bowl.  Add chocolate syrup to the 1 cup of batter.   Stir until well combined. Set aside.

Pour remaining plain batter into prepared baking dish.  Drop chocolate syrup batter randomly by tablespoons into pan.  Swirl batter with a knife.

Bake 30-32 minutes or until knife or toothpick in center comes out clean.

Top with vanilla frosting and additional chocolate syrup, if desired.

If you want to snap a picture of cake, make sure your toddler is napping or it may vanish mid-shot :)