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Death By Chocolate (Coconut Cream Cheese Cake)

Here's how you make Death By Chocolate (Coconut Cream Cheese Cake)
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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 40-50m
    • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 cup flaked coconut
  • 1 cup pecans, chopped
  • 1 box (18 ounce) German chocolate cake mix
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1/3 cup oil (cooking oil like vegetable or canola)
  • 3 large eggs
  • 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 1 package (8 ounce) cream cheese, softened
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 13 x 9 inch pan. Sprinkle coconut and pecans evenly over bottom of greased pan. In large bowl combine cake mix, oil, water and eggs at a low speed until moistened. Beat 2 minutes at high speed.

  • Step 2: Spoon batter evenly over coconut and pecans. In another large bowl combine powdered sugar, butter and cream cheese; beat until smooth and creamy. Spoon evenly over batter to within 1 inch of edges.

  • Step 3: Bake at 375 degrees 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

  • Step 4: To SERVE: slice the cake and serve the slices with a flat server, scraping the bottom of the pan, and flip the slices onto plates. Each slice will come out intact with a coconut/pecan topping.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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