Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake

This Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake here is your typical red velvet cake made with green food color instead of red. So if you’re a red velvet fan, you’ll like this green velvet version just as much.  This cake is made up of two layers of green velvet cake with a layer of cheesecake in the middle.  It’s covered with a marshmallow cream cheese frosting.

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up soon, and because I have a very Irish (& proud of it) husband– it’s my duty to share a few St. Paddy’s Day recipes.  I know, I know… here she goes again with the cheesecake cakes, right? I just can’t help it. These cheesecake-in-the-middle cakes are so darn good! They should come in every flavor.

I tinted the cheesecake lightly with green too (but it’s not mint).  Though I’m thinking a chocolate-mint combination would be super cool for St. Patrick’s Day too!

How to make Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake:

It’s just regular ‘ol yummy cheesecake tucked in between two layers of green velvet cake. After you bake the cheesecake, you just have to freeze it for a few hours and then it is firm enough to pick up, trim slightly and place between the two layers.

The frosting is a very simple marshmallow cream cheese frosting.

Gotta have festive sprinkles on top, right?

The cheesecake layer defrosts quickly to create a wonderfully creamy middle layer to the cake.  It’s like having a giant layer of frosting, but it’s CHEESECAKE!  oh my.  I love it.

But it needs a little bit of St. Patrick’s Day bling, so I melt some green candy melts (available at craft stores) and pipe some 4-leafed clover shapes on waxed paper. (so technically a four-leaf clover is NOT considered a shamrock.  Oh well, lucky four leaf clovers will have to do!)

And here it is in all its glory with a couple of 4-leaf clovers to accompany it.  This is a fun cake for St. Patrick’s Day… plus or minus the clover bling!

My family chowed down on their sample slice of this Green Velvet Cheesecake Cake, and then I broke the news to them that I’d be shipping the rest of the cake off tomorrow to the teachers at my son’s school.  So they forced me to slice up a tiny bit more!  I can’t have treats like this lying around in my house for long.  If you lived next door to me… I would bring them to you-  enjoy!