Reviewed: Jun. 25, 2011

Simply Marvelous! A big Hit!

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Culinary Genius

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Apr. 5, 2011

This cake is delicious. I would make again. :)

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TSTET2006

Reviewed: Mar. 28, 2011

I made this tonight because I had a cake mix, a bar of cream cheese and some coconut. It went together easily and I had high hopes. Unfortunately, the recipe directions were inadequate and I acted impulsively, not taking the time to read all of the reviews. Judging from the recipe photo, I assumed one would need to turn this cake out of the pan. Well, the cake bears no resemblance to the photo. The directions do not specify how long to cool the cake, if/when to de-pan it, etc. I made an educated guess (I've been baking for 30+ years) and it was a mistake. I now have a pile of rubble and a mess on my counter. I did taste it and it's rich and delicious but I'm so relieved that I didn't make this for anything important. I'm sure it would be great if we just had explicit instructions. I'll give it another shot if the recipe is amended.

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JCAFELD

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: North Canton, Ohio, USA

Living In: El Segundo, California, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 12, 2011

I did not care for this recipe.

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millermomof4

Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2011

I loved this cake. I don't use cake mixes so I followed the recipe for devil's food cake I from this site. It was a lot of work and a lot of dishes, but the end result was worth it. I did layer the cream cheese mixture with the cake as other reviewers suggested, but my filling seemed to fall to the bottom of the cake. Maybe because I did not use a box cake mix. Next time I think I will reserve one cup of the cake mix, spoon over the cream cheese mixture and spoon over the reserved cake mix ontop of it. The only changes I made to this recipe was to decrease butter qty by about half and decrease the confectioners sugar to 1 1/2 cps. I can't wait to make this cake again. Next time I will try it with my brownie recipe or crazy cake recie from this site. Tastes great warm, even better when cooled, and even better chilled in the refrigerator.

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globetrotter

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Nov. 28, 2010

I made the cake as instructed except I used the suggestion to layer the chocolate and cream cheese. The cake turned out very moist and delicious. It reminded me of a german chocolate cake with the coconut and pecans. Next time I would cut back the amout of pecans, since I am not too big of a fan of nuts in desserts.

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creinhart1

Reviewed: Sep. 17, 2010

great!

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Patti

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 8, 2010

I also put 1/2 of the cake down, then the cream cheese and then cake on top and baked at 350. It turned out perfectly!

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michelle

Reviewed: May 3, 2010

This was very good. My mom in my opinion is the best cook and she loved this. I only made a small change I reserved some of the cake batter and poured over the top of the cream cheese mixture. You also can't go by the time, you have to check the cake you just know when it's done. Great recipe. Thanks

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Victoria

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Jan. 25, 2010

Very good recipe! I ate this years ago and never knew what it was called so I have been researching it and came across this recipe! It was just as good and I remembered it being! I didn't make any changes!

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