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Better Than Sex Cake

1 cup unsalted butter
2 Tbsp sugar
2 cup flour

3 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
2 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 Tbsp unsalted butter

8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cup cream

1 1/2  cup cream
3 Tbsp powdered sugar

8 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
1 jar caramel or chocolate sauce

2 oz semi-sweet chocolate
2 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

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

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