1 cup margarine
1½ cups sugar
1 cup chocolate syrup
2 tsp. vanilla
1½ cups flour
4 eggs
½ tsp. baking powder
1½ cup chopped nuts

In a rectangle cake pan, melt butter.  Add sugar and syrup on top of stove, mixing and cooking until sugar dissolves.  Cool.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients and pecans, mixing well.  Bake at 350° for 45 minutes.  Cool and spread with icing.

Icing:
½ cup melted butter
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
4 Tbsp. chocolate syrup
½ cups pecans

Beat and spread on cooled cake.