Earthquake cake

Name: Earthquake cake
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 10-16 depending on serving size
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup chopped pecans; 1 cup coconut; 3 eggs; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 1 1/2 cup water; 1 box Triple chocolate fudge cake mix; Option: 1-2 teaspoons of Mocha (Javy) coffee mix; 8 oz package cream cheese softened; 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened; 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar (confectioners sugar); 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/2 cup heath baking pieces; 1/2 cup Carmel baking pieces (chips); 1/2 cup butterscotch chips; 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Sandra @SanB69

Dublin, Ohio

Found this recipe on Facebook minus the heath, butterscotch and Carmel pieces and way to much powder sugar for my taste. So I changed the cake mix flavor, reduced the powder sugar to the icing recipe I use for my Russian cake. Not to sweet, but still a little rich.

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Ingredients

30-45 mins

10-16 depending on serving size

Bottom layer
1 cupchopped pecans
1 cupcoconut
Cake
3eggs
1/2 cupvegetable oil
1 1/2 cupwater
1 boxTriple chocolate fudge cake mix
Option: 1-2 teaspoons of Mocha (Javy) coffee mix
Quake
8 ozpackage cream cheese softened
1/2 cupunsalted butter softened
1 1/2 cuppowdered sugar (confectioners sugar)
1 tspvanilla extract
mixture/ topping
1/2 cupheath baking pieces
1/2 cupCarmel baking pieces (chips)
1/2 cupbutterscotch chips
1/2 cupchocolate chips

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Steps

30-45 mins

1

Preheat oven to 350°
2

Spray 9 x 13 pan with Pam
3

Sprinkle coconut on bottom of pan.
4

Sprinkle pecan pieces over coconut
5

Mix cake mix per instructions
6

Dump chips into a bowl and mix well
7

Cream together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powder sugar
8

Pour cake batter into pan
9

Spoon scoop cream cheese icing into cake batter
10

Sprinkle half of the chip mixture over the cake
11

Bake 35 to 40 minutes
12

Sprinkle with remaining chip mixture on top of the cake.
13

Option: Mix the chips in the cake batter
14

Option: Add Javy coffee to the batter. I like the Mocha, but they have so many different flavors.