{"id":38606,"date":"2018-04-12T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2018-04-11T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:00:16","slug":"earthquake-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=38606","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be Friday the 13th, but you are in luck today.\u00a0 Earthquake cake was not supposed to be a recipe here on the blog.\u00a0 However, when I took my first bite of this most delicious dessert, I grabbed my camera and the cake still in its pan and took some quick photos.\u00a0 Simply put, earthquake cake is THE BEST CAKE I have ever, ever eaten.\u00a0 When the family was together at Jordan&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2018\/04\/03\/little-misss-baptism\/\">Easter week-end<\/a>, meal prep was a group effort.\u00a0 I mentioned last week that Yankee <a href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2018\/03\/22\/five-minute-bread\/\">baked breads<\/a> and made a <a href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/2018\/04\/05\/lentil-soup\/\">hearty lentil soup<\/a>.\u00a0 My daughter-in-law offered to make her grandmother&#8217;s cake.\u00a0 Before then, I had never hear of earthquake cake.\u00a0 Have you?\u00a0 The whole idea behind the name is that when it has finished baking, its top resembles an earthquake.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 It does!!!\u00a0 If you hate desserts, don&#8217;t bake, are afraid of your oven, or don&#8217;t have time &#8211; put that all aside.\u00a0 You absolutely must make this cake.\u00a0 And when you do, let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38610\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-cake-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Earthquake cake - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-cake-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-cake-1-242x323.jpg 242w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-cake-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n    <div id=\"yrecipe-container-81\" class=\"yrecipe-container-border\" >\n    <div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Recipe\" id=\"yrecipe-container\" class=\"yrecipe\">\n      <div id=\"yrecipe-innerdiv\">\n        <div class=\"item b-b\"><div class=\"yrecipe-print-link fl-r\"><a class=\"butn-link\" title=\"Print this recipe\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onclick=\"yrPrint('yrecipe-container-81', 'http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/yummly-rich-recipes\/', '' ); return false\">Print<\/a><\/div><div id=\"y-recipe-link-81\" class=\"y-recipe-link fl-r hide-print\"> <a href=\"\/\/yummly.com\" class=\"YUMMLY-YUM-BUTTON yummly-button add-recipe\">Yum<\/a>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.yummly.com\/js\/widget.js?wordpress&p=wp\"><\/script>\n                <\/div><div id=\"yrecipe-title\" itemprop=\"name\" class=\"b-b h-1 strong\" >Earthquake Cake<\/div>\n      <\/div><div class=\"ymeta yclear\">\n      <div class=\"fl-l width-50\"><\/div>\n      <div class=\"fl-l width-50\"><\/div>\n      <div class=\"yclear\">\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div><p id=\"yrecipe-ingredients\" class=\"h-4 strong\">Ingredients<\/p><ul id=\"yrecipe-ingredients-list\"><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-0\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 cup flaked coconut\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-1\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 cup chopped pecans\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-2\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 package chocolate chips\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-3\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 (18.25 ounce) package German chocolate cake mix\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-4\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese \r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-5\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">3 cups confectioners sugar\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-6\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1\/2 cup butter\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-ingredient-7\" class=\"ingredient\" itemprop=\"ingredients\">1 teaspoon vanilla<\/li><\/ul><p id=\"yrecipe-instructions\" class=\"h-4 strong\">Instructions<\/p><ol id=\"yrecipe-instructions-list\" class=\"instructions\"><li id=\"yrecipe-instruction-0\" class=\"instruction\" itemprop=\"recipeInstructions\">    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease the bottom and sides of one 9 x 13     inch baking pan.\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-instruction-1\" class=\"instruction\" itemprop=\"recipeInstructions\">    Layer coconut,chocolate chips, and pecans in the bottom of pan.\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-instruction-2\" class=\"instruction\" itemprop=\"recipeInstructions\">    Prepare cake mix according to package instructions and pour over pecans, chips, and coconut.\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-instruction-3\" class=\"instruction\" itemprop=\"recipeInstructions\">    Combine cream cheese, butter or margarine, vanilla and confectioners sugar and beat until smooth. Pour over cake mix.  Some recipes call for this to be heated so the cream cheese and butter melt together, but Josie dropped this mixture in dollops on top of the cake batter without heating it.\r<\/li><li id=\"yrecipe-instruction-4\" class=\"instruction\" itemprop=\"recipeInstructions\">    Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes. Toothpick will not come out clean.\r<\/li><\/ol><div class=\"y-linkback\">Schema\/Recipe SEO Data Markup by <a title=\"Yummly Rich Recipes\" alt=\"Yummly Rich Recipes\" href=\"http:\/\/plugin.yummly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yummly Rich Recipes<\/a><\/div><div class=\"yummly-recipe-plugin\" style=\"display: none;\">0.1<\/div><a id=\"y-printed-permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=38606\"title=\"Permalink to Recipe\">http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=38606<\/a><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">wk_bootstrap();<\/script><img id=\"yrecipe-beacon\" src=\"http:\/\/yummly-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/pixels\/wordpress-plugin.png?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthe2seasons.com%2F%3Fp%3D38606\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\n        <\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38609\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-Cake-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Earthquake cake - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"850\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-Cake-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-Cake-2-430x323.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-Cake-2-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Earthquake-Cake-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t had the pleasure of eating this cake, I truly hope you give it a try.\u00a0 You can thank us later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be Friday the 13th, but you are in luck today.\u00a0 Earthquake cake was not supposed to be a recipe here on the blog.\u00a0 However, when I took my first bite of this most delicious dessert, I grabbed my camera and the cake still in its pan and took some quick photos.\u00a0 Simply put, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38620,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions\/38620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}