Cinnabon Cheesecake (Like Tgi Friday's)

I acquired this wonderful recipe off of some serious pregnancy craving searching one day!

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Yields: 1 Cheesecake

Ingredients

• For the Base Batter

• 3⁄4 cup white sugar
• 1⁄4 cup shortening or 1⁄4 cup  softened butter
• 1  egg
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1  tablespoon vanilla extract

• sift together

• 2  cups flour
• 2  teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt

• For the Cream Cheese Batter

• 2 -8  ounces cream cheese, softened
• 5⁄8 cup sugar
• 1  tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1  tablespoon lemon zest (optional) or 1  tablespoon lemon juice (optional)
• 1  tablespoon flour
• 3  eggs

• For the Cinnamon Filling

• 1⁄3 cup butter
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 3  tablespoons cinnamon

• For the Icing

• 2  tablespoons cream cheese, softened
• 2  tablespoons butter, softened
• 1  tablespoon lemon juice
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 1  cup powdered sugar
•  milk (if needed to thin icing)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease springform pan.
3. TO PREPARE BASE BATTER:
4. Cream 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup shortening, and 1 egg together; Add milk and vanilla. set aside.
5. Sift together 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt. Combine the sifted and creamed ingredients together. Once batter is mixed, it should be nice and thick; set aside.
6. TO PREPARE THE CREAM CHEESE BATTER:
7. Cream all the ingredients for the cream cheese batter together, set aside.
8. TO PREPARE THE CINNAMON FILLING:
9. Melt 1/3 cup butter then mix in the brown sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
10. TO PREPARE THE CHEESECAKE:
11. Take the base batter and spread half of it on the bottom of the pan. Next, spread the entire amount of cream cheese batter on top. Take the rest of the base batter and drop spoonfuls over the entire top of cheesecake. After that take the cinnamon filling and drop spoonfuls over entire top. Once finished, take a knife to swirl the ingredients together.
12. Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven for about 45 minutes, cake will be puffy and lightly browned. Let chill and serve with icing drizzled over the top.
13. TO PREPARE THE ICING:
14. Cream 2 tbsp cream cheese and 2 tbsp butter together. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla, then powdered sugar. If icing is too thick, thin with milk.