Earthquake Cake - German Chocolate Cake - Baking Shortcuts

[Music] so [Music] today we are making a really popular upside down german chocolate cake the earthquake cake look at all the craters in this cake and i made it in this pan that was sent to me as a gift from a viewer diane thank you diane [Music] hey y'all it's tammy with collard valley cooks today our oven's preheated for 350 degrees and we're going to make an old special the earthquake cake some people call it upside down german chocolate cake and some people call it earthquake cake it is going to be so delicious it is coconut pecans german chocolate cake mix with cream cheese butter and powdered sugar dolloped on the top so delicious i've got a measuring cup that i'm gonna put my oil in you're just gonna go by the directions on the box for your cake mix so we need a half cup of cooking oil now we've already got one quarter cups of water in here and three eggs next to me we're going to be mixing up just a typical cake mix for one of the layers of this cake so when i do a cake mix i typically start out what no matter how i'm mixing it up by hand or with the mixer i typically start out with all the wet ingredients in first so we're going to add the one and a quarter cups of water a quarter cup of oil and three eggs all right it's time to add the eggs you're going to use three eggs all right we'll go ahead and mix this a little bit and then we'll add our cake mix i am using a german chocolate super moist cake mix we'll pour it in it's an easy recipe too now we're going to make we're going to rinse these beaters off because we've got to beat up some cream cheese and butter i'm going to go over here and rinse the beaters off and get us another bowl we're going to put these back on the mixer all right we're going to put in 8 ounces of cream cheese i just heard the ups man he has delivered the volume 3 cookbooks we've been waiting on them for 2 weeks it's very exciting so after i get this cake mixed up i'll start packaging orders for cookbooks this is a stick of butter which is a half cup of butter so you got eight ounces of cream cheese and a half cup of butter i'm good we're going to add a pound of powdered sugar a little at a time i'll go ahead and put in a little and this beater does not have a low to low speed so it's probably going to make a mess to me this is already sweet enough i personally don't want the cream cheese to be super sweet because then it takes away from the taste of the cream cheese it's plenty sweet and i put in about two cups of powdered sugar so that's what my recipe will call for so now to the fun part putting it together so once you've got everything mixed up clean up your station and we're going to layer the cake so really i only use about a half pound of the powdered sugar when i wrap my stuff up i use rubber bands i love using rubber bands if you've never done it it's real convenient and um i think i've got a little cream cheese on this bag i gotta wipe it off but it's really nice to use rubber bands and put things in the pantry with them they cost rip they're really cheap and they work much better than a chip clip or something like that and then you don't have to waste your gallon bags in your storage bags you can just wrap it up like that matter of fact got my coconut wrapped up like that right now get you a 9 by 13 cake pan that's a quarter sheet pretty much make sure you do a good job because this is a very sticky cake now we're going to take a cup of coconut and sprinkle it in the bottom and i'm not measuring i'm just going to sprinkle coconut in the bottom of my pan i love baker's coconut i don't know if you can get it where you live but it is so much moister than everybody else is it's amazing the difference for something like this it don't matter as much but if you're making a coconut cake um i would prefer having the moist coconut on my cake now we're going to put pecans in the bottom and i'm going to do the same thing and i'm just going to sprinkle them onto the bottom of the pan and i've got chocolates right here and um you use your judgment on how many you want to use they're expensive so if you don't want to use a ton of them don't but i'm probably going to use at least a cup to a cup and a half this cake can be frozen since it's just me and chris here i don't know that i want to eat this whole cake he's going to love it he loves anything german chocolate all right so there's the bottom now we're going to pour our batter in just spread it out even as you can and now we're just going to dollop our cream cheese mixture on the cake [Music] so all right now you don't have to swirl it but i'm going to just a little bit [Music] there's a lot on this end over here all right this is going in the oven at 350 degrees for one whole hour [Music] do [Music] you can see coconut sub one a little bit it looks like it's cratered all right see all those craters that's why it's called an earthquake cake got our milk yummy christmas broad milk because we were out and i'm going to cut a piece now this has cooled off completely i've never dumped one upside down just to see what it looks like but we're just going to cut a piece out of this put it on our plate and i'll show you how it looks sure get around the bottom good and it may take two pieces before i get a really nice before i can lift and i know it's lifting out pretty good lifting out pretty good looks delicious don't it let's take a bite chris loves german chocolate i usually make the homemade kind but every once in a while it's good to do something fun i think my sister-in-law makes this at christmas time i'm pretty sure she does it's delicious it's delicious y'all and it does taste like german chocolate let me say this that is so good there's nothing wrong with it instead of buying german chocolate icing out of a can make sure you make this cake next time if you don't want to do the homemade kind because it is delicious it tastes just like german chocolate [Music] thanks for watching collard valley cooks where we cook like mama did bye y'all love ya [Music] you

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Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020