Email to Buny      

Better than Better-Than-Sex Cake

Source of Recipe

Medford Mail Tribune, 7 December 1993


List of Ingredients

-----CRUST-----
1 c Unsalted Butter
2 tb Sugar
2 c Flour

-----VANILLA PUDDING LAYER-----
3 Egg Yolks
1/2 c Sugar
1/4 c Flour
2 c Milk
2 ts Vanilla Extract
2 tb Unsalted Butter

-----CREAM CHEESE LAYER-----
8 oz Cream Cheese, very soft
1/2 c Sugar
1 t Vanilla Extract
1 t Lemon Juice
1 c Cream

-----WHIPPED CREAM LAYER-----
1 1/2 c Cream
3 tb Powdered Sugar

-----PINEAPPLE CARAMEL LAYER-----
8 oz Can Crushed Pineapple, Drained
1 Jar Caramel or Chocolate Sauce

-----CHOCOLATE GLAZE-----
2 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate
2 tb Unsalted Butter
1 1/2 ts Vanilla Extract


Recipe

Butter a 9x13" baking pan. Set oven rack in center of oven and preheat to
350ºF. 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 nd 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.