Better--than Better-than-sex Cake

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 3 egg yolks
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, very soft
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup cream
• 1 1/2 cups cream
• 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 can caramel sauce or 1 can chocolate syrup (optional)
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate (2 sq)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 butter a 9x13" baking pan.
• 2 set oven rack in center of oven and preheat oven to 350'f.
• 3 beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• 4 add flour and, at low speed on mixer, blend until mixture is pebbly and can be pressed together.
• 5 press mixture on bottom of buttered pan and bake for 20 minutes or until golden.
• 6 cool completely.
• 7 (if using a food processor, process until ingredients are a coarse mixture.) for pudding, beat egg yolks and set aside near stove.
• 8 whisk the sugar, flour and milk in a medium saucepan until free of lumps.
• 9 set over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula, just to a boil.
• 10 remove from heat and whisk a little of the hot, thick pudding into the beaten egg yolks then pour the yolk mixture back into the pudding, whisking really well.
• 11 continue to cook 1 2 minutes, stirring constantly, until thick.
• 12 pour pudding into bowl and add vanilla and butter, stirring until butter melts.
• 13 if pudding has lumps, pour through a large, fine mesh strainer.
• 14 chill, with plastic wrap pressed directly on surface of pudding, until ready to use.
• 15 beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice just to blend.
• 16 in separate bowl, whip 1 cup cream to medium stiff peaks.
• 17 fold a scoop of whipped cream into beaten cheese then fold remaining cream into cheese.
• 18 set aside.
• 19 whip 1 1/2 cups cream, sugar and vanilla to stiff peaks.
• 20 spread crust with cream cheese mixture, top with pineapple, then caramel or chocolate sauce.
• 21 spread pudding over pineapple; spread whipped cream evenly over pudding.
• 22 chill well.
• 23 to make glaze, melt chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring until smooth and completely melted.
• 24 remove from heat, stir in vanilla.
• 25 drizzle in zigzags across cake's surface.