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Earthquake Cake
This is a combination of chocolate cake and cheesecake. You'll probably need a bit of a lie down after you've had some. It's not very pretty and will contribute to the narrowing of your arteries. It is, however, very, very nice.

Grease a cake pan. I use a 9" square deep pan with the resulting cake being about 2.5 inches deep.

Start with some chopped pecan or other nuts and mix this with a dessicated coconut in a 1:1 ratio. You'll need about a cupful of each.
Put this mixture over the bottom of your cake tin.

Get a box of Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake and mix it according to the instructions on the box. Pour it carefully over the nut and coconut layer, making sure it gets into the corners of the pan.

Put it aside for a while while you melt 125g of butter and an 250g pack of full fat Philadelphia soft cheese in a heavy bottomed saucepan. keep stirring. Gradually tip in an entire box of icing sugar into this pan and keep stirring so it doesn't burn.
Pour this mixure over the cake batter layer.

Bake in a preheated 350°F for 45 minutes. I'd check it after 30 minutes.

You should have something that looks cracked on the top, with gooey caramelly coconutty bits and pockets of cheesecake through your chocolate cake.

I think it's called Earthquake cake because it should look as if it's been through some sort of natural disaster before it gets to your bowl.

If you have room, it works well with a coconut or caramel'honeycomb icecream.

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(Wed 4th Jul 2012, 12:13, More)