Cinnamon Swirl Earthquake Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 2 cups shredded coconut
• 1 (18 ounce) package pillsbury cinnamon swirl cake mix
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, divided
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 16 ounces confectioners' sugar (3 3/4 cups)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease a 9 x 13 pan.
• 3 cover bottom of pan with chopped pecan. then spread coconut over the pecans.
• 4 in a mixing bowl mix cinnamon swirl cake according to dirctions on box but add 1 teaspoons cinnamon to the cake mix.
• 5 add cinnamon swirl packet to cake mix but start and stop your mixer 6-7 times.
• 6 pour cake mixtire over coconut and pecans.
• 7 in a mixing bowl, cream together soft margarine, cream cheese, confectioners sugar and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon.
• 8 drop by spoonfuls in dollups on top of cake batter. take a knife and run it through the cream cheese mixture a little bit to swirl the top of the cake, but not too much! you still want to have the cream cheese in clumps.
• 9 bake for 40-45 minutes. like a typical earthquake cake, it will fall and look like an earthquake hit it.