Cheesecake factory reeses peanut butter chocolate cake cheesecake

Delicious layers of moist chocolate cake, Reese’s cheesecake, caramel and peanut butter make up this Copycat Cheesecake Factory Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake.

Welcome everyone to my week full of copycat recipes! I’ve been wanting to do a week of these delicious dishes for a long time now and I’m so excited to be sharing some with you! Today I brought you my version of the delicious Cheesecake Factory’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake. Seriously yum!

I love rich flavor when it comes to desserts and this cake is just that. I mean it’s piled high with layers of delicious goodness! There is so many different flavor profiles in this bad boy that it all ties together so well and creates one heck of a decadent dessert.

Obviously you now that I love making cakes so you had to know that I was going to be making one here again soon. But this week isn’t just desserts, we’ve got a good mix of dessert, appetizer and entrée! I’m also going to be giving you a roundup of amazing copycat recipes from around the web so stay tuned for that.

If you aren’t already a lover of copycat recipes I hope I can sway you to like them. I mean I absolutely adore going to restaurants and indulging in some of my most favorite foods! But what I find even better is when I can recreate my favorites at home. I prefer to always eat in the comforts of my own home anyways, I hate feeling miserable like I’ve over eaten in public, so this way I can still fill miserable for over eating, but I’ll be home, lol!!

I’ve been doing copycat recipes for a while now and I just can’t quit. Here are some of my faves that I have done: Texas Roadhouse Rattlesnake Bites, Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Olive Garden Lemon Crumb Cake and Applebees Honey Pepper Chicken Mac and Cheese.

I wish I could say I have a favorite restaurant, but I’m such a foodie that I just can’t. There are so many that I enjoy and so many that I have yet to try! Unfortunately we live in a rural area so most of my foodie adventures happen when we travel and then I just go wild on food! Like literally try anything and everything I can. But I think that’s acceptable since I’m on vacation right? You’re allowed to indulge!

So getting back to this Copycat Cheesecake Factory Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake. Moist fudge cake is layered with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake, then you have caramel (who doesn’t wanna add a little caramel) then a layer or peanut butter buttercream and then the cycle repeats itself. It’s then all covered in a chocolate ganache frosting and decorated with more peanut butter buttercream. Have I got your attention yet?

Not saying this thing is the easiest…I mean it can be. But it was really fun to make and seriously it was worth every second just to indulge in those delicious rich layers of chocolatey cheesecake goodness. So tighten your apron and have some fun!!

CHOCOLATE CAKE

• ▢ 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• ▢ 2 cup sugar
• ▢ Heaping 3/4 cup cocoa
• ▢ 2 tsp baking soda
• ▢ 1 tsp salt
• ▢ 2 eggs room temp
• ▢ 1 cup buttermilk
• ▢ 1/2 cup butter melted
• ▢ 1 Tbs vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 cup black coffee hot

CHEESECAKE

• ▢ 4 8oz packages full fat cream cheese, softened
• ▢ 1 1/4 cup sugar
• ▢ 1/2 cup sour cream
• ▢ 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ▢ 5 eggs
• ▢ 12 fun sized Reese's Peanut Butter cups chopped
• ▢ 1 14oz can of dulce de leche

PEANUT BUTTER BUTTERCREAM

• ▢ 3/4 cup butter
• ▢ 3/4 cup shortening
• ▢ 3/4 cup peanut butter
• ▢ 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• ▢ 4-5 cups powdered sugar

GANACHE

• ▢ 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• ▢ 1 cup heavy cream
• ▢ 1 tsp vanilla

• To make chocolate cake, preheat oven to 350.

• Line bottoms of 2 9" round baking pans with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray, set aside.

• In large bowl mix together your flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt.

• Add your eggs, buttermilk, butter and vanilla and mix until smooth.

• Fold in your hot coffee until a runny batter forms.

• Pour into your prepared baking pans and bake for about 30-35 minutes.

• Remove from oven and let cool in pans for about 10 minutes before inverting on cooling racks.

• Once fully cool, wrap in saran wrap and refrigerate.

• To make your Cheesecake preheat your oven to 475.

• Fill large pan with about 1/2" of water and spray a 9" springform pan with non-stick cooking spray and wrap bottom in tinfoil.

• In large bowl with electric mixer mix your cream cheese until fluffy. Mix in your sugar, sour cream and vanilla until combined.

• Mix in 1 egg at a time, making sure to blend after each addition. Fold in your chopped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

• Pour into your prepared pan and place pan in water dish.

• Place in oven and bake for 10 minutes and reduce heat to 350 and continue to bake another 50-60 minutes or until cheesecake is just set.

• Remove from oven and let cool, once cool cover and refrigerate at least 4-6 hours if not overnight.

• Once cooled trim off about 1/2-1" of the top of the cheesecake to make level and then using a cake leveler or serrated knife split cake in half, chill until ready for use.

• Before you begin to construct your cake make your peanut butter butter cream by creaming together your butter and shortening, once fluffy add your peanut butter and vanilla.

• Adding one cup at a time add in your powdered sugar until desired consistency is reached, set aside.

• Add your dulce de leche to a bowl and add a few tsp of milk to thin out.

TO ASSEMBLE

• On a turntable or cake stand add 1 of your layers of chocolate cake and top with half of your dulce de leche.

• Top your dulce de leche with 1 layer of your cheesecake.

• Spread with about 1 cup of your peanut butter buttercream and top with 2nd layer of cake.

• Spread the rest of your dulce de leche and top with other layer of cheesecake.

• Trip outside of cake if need be to make even and spread a thin layer of your peanut butter buttercream to do a crumb coating and seal any gaps or spaces in the cake.

• Place in the freezer for about 30 minutes to harden up slightly.

• Meanwhile to make your ganache add your chocolate chips to heat proof bowl and add your heavy cream to sauce pan and heat until it just starts to boil.

• Pour your cream over chocolate chips and cover for about 5-7 minutes.

• Remove cover and stir until chocolate melts into cream.

• Let sit until it starts to thicken slightly but not too thick.

• Remove cake from freeze and pour some of your ganache over the top and spread down the sides of your cake (ganache should slightly harden once it hits the cool cake).

• Repeat until top and sides of cake are covered.

• Place your 1/4 cup peanut butter in small bowl and heat until liquid and drizzle over top of your cake.

• Decorate top and bottom of cake with remaining buttercream.

Calories: 911kcal | Carbohydrates: 103g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 52g | Saturated Fat: 24g | Cholesterol: 137mg | Sodium: 589mg | Potassium: 342mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 86g | Vitamin A: 855IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 2.8mg

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