Bonzo Cake Recipes

Steps:

• For the brownie: Grease a 10-inch springform pan. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt margarine. Add chocolate morsels, stirring often.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa, sugar, eggs and vanilla; mix well.
• Pour chocolate mixture into flour mixture. Scrape bowl to get chocolate off sides and bottom of bowl. Mix well.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour. Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature.
• For the cheesecake: Bring cream cheese to room temperature. (When ready to add cheesecake layer to cooled brownie layer, preheat oven to 300 degrees.)
• 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.
• For the chocolate mousse: Melt chocolate in a double boiler and keep warm.
• 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.
• Spread chocolate mousse over cooled cheesecake.
• Chill at least 2 hours before serving.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line 8-inch square pan with foil, then smear with thick layer of butter. Dust with flour; turn pan over and tap lightly to remove excess flour.
• Melt butter in small saucepan. Set aside. Beat together eggs and half the sugar in a bowl. Continue to beat while slowly adding remaining sugar until thick; it should form a ribbon when dropped from a spoon.
• Split vanilla bean in two lengthwise. Scrape seeds into egg-sugar batter and add pod to melted butter.
• Peel, quarter and core apples, then trim ends and slice thinly.
• Remove vanilla pod from butter and stir butter into egg-sugar batter. Combine 1/2 cup flour and baking powder, then stir it into batter alternately with milk. Stir in apples, coating every piece with batter. Pour batter into pan, using fingers to pat top evenly.
• Bake for 25 minutes, then rotate pan; bake for about 25 minutes more, until cake pulls away from pan and is brown on top; a thin-bladed knife inserted into center will come out clean when it is done. Cool 30 minutes, then cut lengthwise and sprinkle slices with powdered sugar.