Cinnamon Swirl Earthquake Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    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)
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    Grease a 9 x 13 pan.
    Cover bottom of pan with chopped pecan. Then spread coconut over the pecans.
    In a mixing bowl mix Cinnamon Swirl Cake according to dirctions on box but add 1 teaspoons cinnamon to the cake mix.
    Add cinnamon swirl packet to cake mix but start and stop your mixer 6-7 times.
    Pour cake mixtire over coconut and pecans.
    In a mixing bowl, cream together soft margarine, cream cheese, confectioners sugar and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon.
    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.
    Bake for 40-45 minutes. Like a typical earthquake cake, it will fall and look like an earthquake hit it.

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