Bonzo Cake

Total Time: 4 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsel
• 1 1/3 cups cake flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 25 ounces cream cheese
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 14 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 1 1/2 cups whipped cream
• 9 egg yolks
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar

Recipe

• 1 for the brownie: grease a 10-inch springform pan. preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• 2 in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt margarine. add chocolate morsels, stirring often.
• 3 in a large mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa, sugar, eggs and vanilla; mix well.
• 4 pour chocolate mixture into flour mixture. scrape bowl to get chocolate off sides and bottom of bowl. mix well.
• 5 pour batter into prepared pan. bake 1 hour. remove from oven and let cool to room temperature.
• 6 for the cheesecake: bring cream cheese to room temperature. (when ready to add cheesecake layer to cooled brownie layer, preheat oven to 300 degrees.)
• 7 in a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese and sugar. add eggs and vanilla. pour mixture over cooled brownie layer and bake, checking after 45 minutes. if it is still liquid, continue baking up to 15 minutes until set. remove and set aside to cool.
• 8 for the chocolate mousse: melt chocolate in a double boiler and keep warm.
• 9 whip cream and set aside. beat egg yolks until volume has doubled. add sugar and hot melted chocolate at medium speed. immediately fold in whipped cream.
• 10 spread chocolate mousse over cooled cheesecake.
• 11 chill at least 2 hours before serving.