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Ingredients
Cream mixture:
- 8 ounces softened cream cheese
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 2 cups 4X or 10X sugar
Cake:
- 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 (18.25-ounce) box German chocolate cake mix, prepare by following directions on box
- 10 bite-sized almond and chocolate covered candy or candy of choice
Glaze:
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Directions
For the cream mixture:
Beat ingredients together with an electric mixer. Set aside until ready to use.
Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 by 9 by 2-inch cake pan.
Line bottom of greased pan with coconut flakes. Sprinkle pecans on top of coconut. Set aside.
Follow directions on back of box to prepare cake. Beat for approximately 2 minutes, using an electric mixer. Fold in bite-sized candy. Pour into cake pan. Evenly space dollops of cream mixture on top of the cake. When the cake cooks, the cream will sink down to the bottom. This will be your "volcano" of flavor. Place in oven for 40 to 45 minutes. While cake is still hot spread the glaze evenly over the cake.
For the glaze:
In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Whisk in cocoa powder and add milk until you get a thin consistency. If glaze is too thick, add more milk. While bringing the butter and milk mixture to a boil, whisk in confectioners' sugar and almond extract. Glaze should be thin. Remove from the heat and allow to cool before using.
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By redbud9
Cary, NC
on January 30, 2012
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I followed the recipe exactly. After 40 mins, I open the oven door to find a fair amount of white cream on the bottom of the oven. (note to self, get a 2" deep pan. The cream has not sunk into the cake, but has overflowed or "erupted" in volcano terms! The cake center is still liquidy so I bake it another 7 minutes, wondering if I'll have any cream remaining in the pan. After 7 mins it's not quite done and the bubbling cream has seemed to cease. Bake it another 7 mins. The cake is ugly, craters of golden cream potmarks all over the cake....I am disappointed. But wait! It's supposed to be an eruption, a volcano, so it would be ugly, no? That's why I tell myself. So I pour the glaze over it, and voila this ugly cake is actually looking pretty cool, and tasting pretty good!
By mldesignworks
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on January 01, 2012
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This is a wonderful cake, and a real man-pleaser! Thank you Paula! BTW, I left out the coconut, and it was still fab!
By KitchenAidNut
on November 28, 2011
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I make a very similar recipe called an Earthquake Cake and my grandkids ask for it all the time! I've got to make this Volcano cake....it just might replace other one!
(I must have a natural disaster fettish...lol
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