Chocolate Cheese Cake

This chocolate cheese cake recipe was shared by Kirsten ages ago at Jo Deli's Bakery and lots of friends had baked it ages ago too! The review was so good. Apparently this recipe was from CW.

I hesitated trying to do this cake for a long long time because of the amount of butter used in the baking of this cos' I hated butter cake.

Since this is an easy to do cake and I needed a cake for my girl and her friends who are coming to our house to do their project about HK Snacks, I quickly set out to do it. Trying to be different I used 2/3 of the batter for the bottom layer and marble the 1/3 top layer with the cheese mixture. That is why my cake has no distinct cheese and chocolate layers.

Anyhow, this cake turn out tremendously delicious, fragrant and sinful. It is so rich and buttery even though I have cut down on butter and sugar. If you are in need of a yummilicious and yet easy cake, I would recommend this one (that is if you have all ingredients on hand)!



Ingredients:
(A)
250g cream cheese
50g sugar
1 egg
1.5 tsp rum

Method:
1. Beat cream cheese and sugar till light and smooth.
2. Add in the egg, rum and beat till well blended.

(B)
150g butter
135g sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
120g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp milk

Method:
1. Line baking pan and grease all around the sides with butter. Preheat oven at 175C.
2. Sieve flour, baking powder and cocoa powder together, leave aside for use later.
3. Cream butter, salt, vanilla essence and sugar till light and fluffy.
4. Add in the eggs one at a time and beat till well blended.
5. Mix in the flour mixture using the lowest speed of your beater.
6. Stir in the milk.
7. Pour half of the chocolate batter into the baking pan. Top it with all the cheese mixture, then pour in the rest of the chocolate batter.
8. Bake for 45 minutes or till a cake tester comes out clean.

Notes:
Cover the top of cake with greaseproof paper or aluminum foil if it is too brown.