Every morning in bed I read blogs and J reads The Age, both on our iPads.

It feels like the modern version of the Saturday morning news paper reading.  I update him on my friends posts, and the ‘important’ bits of the news (from twitter) and he updates me on interesting info he finds in the paper.

Now there’s something that must be known about J, he doesn’t drink very much, has no drug addictions but if you put a bag of peanut M&M’s in front of him, he will not hesitate to eat the whole thing, no matter what size and no matter how sick he know’s he’ll feel at the end of his binge.

So when he stumbled across a Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Cheesecake brownie recipe in the newspaper one morning, he of course asked me to make it.  Now I rarely receive baking requests from him, he’s not a real sweet tooth (apart from the peanut M&M’s), so I couldn’t say no.

And as the 8th of December is National Brownie Day I thought of nothing better than this to share with you.

This brownie is delicious!  Absolutely one of a kind, mouth watering, melts in your mouth delicious and unless you can’t eat sugar/gluten/peanuts etc, then you absolutely have to give it a go!

What’s you’re secret addiction?  Do you love brownies?

Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Cheesecake Brownie

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Total time

55 mins

 

Ingredients

Brownie layer

• 200g dark cooking chocolate, broken into pieces
• 125g butter
• 115g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 60 g plain flour
• pinch of salt

Cheesecake layer

• 250g block of cream cheese
• ⅓ cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 115g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of milk
• 2 tablespoons of plain flour
• 60g dark cooking chocolate

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees, line 20cm x 20cm tin

Brownie layer

1. Stir chocolate and butter in a medium saucepan until melted, set aside to cool for 10 mins.
2. Using electric mixer, beat sugar, eggs and vanilla until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Slowly add chocolate mixture while mixing on low speed. Then beat in flour and salt. Spread brownie mix in pan.

Cheesecake layer

1. Using electric mixer beat cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla until smooth.
2. Gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs one at a time and beat until fully incorporated.
4. Next beat in milk and the flour being careful not to over mix.
5. Spread ⅔ of cheesecake mixture on top of brownie mixture.
6. In a small microwave bowl, break up cooking chocolate and melt at 10 second intervals, stirring in between until melted.
7. Once melted stir into remaining mixture and gently place on top of brownie in pan. Use chopstick to create swirling patterns.
8. Bake for 35 mins. Should be slightly undercooked with gooey centre.

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