"This recipe for Shortcut Preacher Cake is a last-minute dessert recipe that is impossibly easy to make. The legend behind Preacher Cake is that it is a homemade cake recipe simple enough to whip up when the preacher unexpectedly stops by for a visit. Shortcut Preacher Cake is even faster to make than the original because it uses boxed cake mix. No one will ever be able to guess that this rich and moist cake was made using a mix. This is one shortcut dessert recipe that is fit for even the finest company, especially since it is topped with homemade cream cheese frosting. To make this shortcut cake taste as homemade as possible, we add one more egg than called for on the box and use melted butter instead of oil. To make this shortcut cake even easier, you can simply follow the directions on the box and then fold in the pineapple, coconut, and nuts. If you are really scrambling for time, you can also frost the cake with a can of store-bought vanilla or cream cheese frosting...."