INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • 2 cups shredded coconut
  • 1 (18ounce)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)

DIRECTIONS

  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.