Ingredients
Cake Layer
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup milk
Cheesecake Layer
- 3 (8 oz pkgs) cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup heavy cream
Chocolate Layer
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 Tbsp butter, room temperature
Instructions
Cake Layer:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Grease a 9 or 10 inch spring form pan, set aside.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- In bowl of stand mixer cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and continue mixing until smooth.
- Add flour mixture and milk in alternating amounts, starting and ending with flour. Stir until just blended.
- Pour in springform pan. Bake for 25 minutes until center is set and toothpick comes out clean.
Cheesecake Layer
- Lower oven temperature to 325*
- In bowl of stand mixer beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together on medium-high speed until smooth.
- Separately whisk eggs with a fork in a small bowl, add beaten eggs to cream cheese mixture on low until just combined. Stir in sour cream. Pour mixture over cake in the spring form pan, spreading to cover.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes until the outside edges appear set when gently shaken. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
- Loosen the edges of cake from the pan by running a butter knife around the cake.Allow cake to cool completely. Cover cake and chill for at least 4 hours or over night
Chocolate layer
- When cheesecake is chilled heat heavy cream in a small saucepan until it almost comes to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted. Stir in butter until smooth.
- Chill for 15 minutes and then spread over top of cake.
- Chill until ready to serve.
Recipe and Photo: Chick Who Cooks / CC BY-SA