Better Than Sex Cake
| Ingredients For Crust
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1 c Unsalted Butter 2 tb Sugar 2 c Flour
| Ingredients For Vanilla Pudding Layer
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3 Egg Yolks 1/2 c Sugar1/4 c Flour
2 c Milk2 ts Vanilla Extract
2 tb Unsalted Butter
| Ingredients For Cream Cheese Layer
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8 oz Cream Cheese, very soft
1/2 c Sugar1 ts Vanilla Extract
1 ts Lemon Juice1 c Cream
| Ingredients For Whipped Cream Layer
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1 1/2 c Cream3 tb Powdered Sugar
| Ingredients For Pineapple Carmel Layer
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8 oz Can Crushed Pineapple, Drained1 Jar Caramel or Chocolate Sauce
| Ingredients For Chocolate Glaze
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2 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate
2 tb Unsalted Butter
1 1/2 ts Vanilla Extract
| Directions |
Butter a 9x13" baking
pan. Set oven rack in center of oven and preheat to 350�F. Beat butter and
sugar until fluffy. Add flour, at low speed in mixer, blend until mixture is
pebbly and can be pressed together. Press mixture on bottom of buttered pan
and bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Cool completely. (If using a food
processor, process until ingredients are a coarse mixture.For pudding,
beat egg yolks and set aside near stove. Whisk the sugar, flour and milk in
amdeium saucepan until free of lumps. Set over medium heat and cook,
stirring constantly with a wooden spatula, just to a boil. Remove from heat
and whisk a little bit of the hot, thick pudding into the beaten egg yolks
then pour the yolk mixture back into the pudding, whisking really well.
Continue to cook 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly, until thick. Pour
pudding into bowl and add vanilla and butter, stirring until butter melts.
If pudding has lumps, pour through a large, fine-mesh strainer. Chill, with
plastic wrap pressed directly on surface of pudding, until ready to
use.Beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice just to blend. In
seperate bowl, whip 1 cup cream to medium-stiff peaks. Fold a scoop of
whipped cream into beaten cheese then fold remaining cream into cheese. Set
aside.Whip 1 1/2 cups cream, sugar and vanilla to stiff peaks.Spread
crust with cream cheese mixture, top with pineapple, then caramel or
chocolate sauce. Spread pudding over pineapple; spread whipped cream evenly
over pudding. Chill well.To make glaze, melt chocolate and butter over
low heat, stirring until smooth and completely melted. Remove from heat,
stir in vanilla. Drizzle in zigzags across cake's surface. Source:
Medford Mail Tribune
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