A thick piece of peppered bacon is wrapped around shrimp, green chiles, and other seafood in this quick and simple appetizer or main dish. On an indoor grill, this recipe works incredibly well.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch cake |
Ingredients
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease the bottom and sides of a 9×13-inch baking pan. Layer coconut and pecans in the bottom of pan.
- Mix cake mix, water, oil, and eggs in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until well combined. Pour over coconut and pecans. Clean the bowl and mixer attachments.
- Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in the bowl until combined. Gradually mix in confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Pour over cake batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes; a toothpick will not come out clean.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 282 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 29 g |
| Cholesterol | 47 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 56 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is actually a great recipe. The cake is delicious. I was given this recipe many years ago. The difference is the use of the cream cheese frosting. I was always told to drop teaspoonfuls all over the cake. As it bakes the cake will “crack”, hence the name Earthquake Cake. A variation I have tried is making a chocolate syrup or glaze and pouring it over the hot cake. Delicious!
Wonderful. Best cake I’ve ever had
Very good (VERY sweet), great for at-home dessert. Not attractive enough to serve for others, but that was expected. I made exactly as printed, and had no problems baking it for 30 minutes in a convection oven. I wonder if the butter should have been melted, as the cream cheese frosting was much too thick to pour. Not sure if I will make again – good, but there are many better cake recipes out there.
It was well worth the time to bake this. Just remember to keep the cream cheese mixture 1″ back from the edge of the pan (if you do not it overflows in the oven). Also put a cookie sheet under it in the oven. Very good!
My cream cheese didn’t mix in with the chocolate cake! And one corner was sunken! This was a delicious recipe discovery, but won’t bring it to parties as it is quite an ugly cake. Once it cooled down, it looked like a 3-D topography map. Due to my kids allergies, I altered the recipe to use a gluten free devil’s food cake mix and a combo of sunflower seeds and pepitas in lieu of the nuts. I also reduced the sugar and it still tasted really sweet! It came out great! It got Rave reviews from the entire family. This is a very rich and decadent dessert, you should have some milk, coffee or tea close by. Tastes great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream too!
Excellent cake, my husband loved it. Made as recipe called. Took advice of others and saved some of the cake for top.
I’m a baker. I do this all the time. This may taste great but it looks awful. I’m embarrassed to serve it but the birthday dinner is in 3 hours so I guess I don’t have a choice but to serve it! I followed advice here and made it in a Bundt pan to make it “prettier”. I also added time to cooking per recommendations. This is still what I got. I won’t make it again.
Delicious
it was very easy to do and was a big hit at our Church movie night
The sugar in cream cheese can be halved I think it made the cake gooey and everyone thought it was way too sweet overall.
Very tasty and rich. The only thing I wish I had done differently is I should have swirled the cream cheese mixture through the cake batter. I think it would look more attractive that way.
Made it, very easy to make. However it took about 60 min to bake completely. The middle is what took long to cook. It came out very moist and was a hit at the BBQ. Oh and it might not look very pretty but it’s is yummy
Yes- about 1/2 cup less of confectioners sugar! AND you must ‘drop’ the confectioners sugar mixture over ! It’s too thick to spread!!
I have been making this cake for years and love it. My daughter doesn’t care for the German cake mix so I now use the devil’s food cake mix and everyone in our family loves it even better. I even add a little whip cream on top.
A very indulging cake to make. Super easy. Although, the cream cheese mixture was a bit too sweet for my liking. I think next time I’ll cut the 4 cups of confectioner’s sugar down to more of like 2.. and add a little more pecans. The cake cooked for me fully at about 40 minutes. That may be because I let my cream cheese get to room temp.
This cake is awesome!!!
Instead of a Devils Food cake mix I used a Chocolate Fudge cake mix which made it extremely rich and chocolatey. A very easy cake to make and loved by all that tried it. I will make this cake again.
Amazing! Will absolutely make it again!
This cake is great but i make it with butter and brown sugar along with coconut and pecans ( chopped) just like my pineapple upside down cake. IT IS A WINNER EVERY TIME.
Great recipe. This cake is a hit at any event.
Oh My Goodness – this cake is incredible! And unbelievably rich – make sure you have a big glass of milk to go with it. I didn’t have a German Chocolate cake mix so I used a Duncan Hines chocolate one. Can’t imagine it being any better than this one is. My cream cheese mixture didn’t “pour” – I had to drop it by globs and then sort of spread it around the pan. I did read not to get it too close to the edge – and then took the knife and ran it both lengthwise (several lines) and then crosswise, again several lines, and tossed it into the oven. It smelled wonderful while baking (& I did bake it for 50 minutes), took it out & let it cool for an hour. It was still warm and very gooey and yummy when I served it. Hubby agrees – this cake is incredible!