While watching Paul Hollywood City Bakes last year I decided I would make his chocolate cheesecake brownies. The opportunity was given to me in anticipation of his visit to Cape Town this year.
Head straight on to the recipe for Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies ♥
Step one in making this recipe for Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies was to buy a new brownie pan. The recipe called for a 22x29cm size pan so I headed over to yuppiechef.com and went through the dimensions of each and every pan. The strange thing is that the Paul Hollywood endorsed brownie tin was only 17.5x27cm. As it was the closest to what he called for I went ahead and bought it. The day it arrived I set out everything on the ingredient list I needed other than the butter and the eggs. Dave went to the shops and bought eggs for me and when I was ready to start baking I got the butter out of the fridge. The eggs were placed on the butcher’s block which was behind me during the process of blending and mixing.
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The recipe was pinned to the fridge in my scullery. Knowing my ingredients were laid out, I only read through the method. I found grammar errors and wrote the corrections as I went along. Once the mixture was in the oven I turned back towards the butcher’s block and noticed an egg! It was not in the cheesecake method. The recipe called for 25 – 30 minutes baking time and they were done after 50 minutes. Not being sure whether this had anything to do with the missing egg I made them again. As we found the 175g extra chocolate too much in terms of richness, I opted for fresh blueberries. This did not work out too well and so I made them again, this time with dried sour cherries. The cheesecake worked out best in the first bake but that might have everything to do with the missing egg.
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Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies
Ingredients
for the brownie mixture
- 225 g 75% chocolate, roughly chopped
- 225 g butter
- 3 eggs
- 225 g fructose
- 75 g self raising flour
- 2.5 mls salt
- 175 g dried sour cherries, roughly chopped
- 5 mls vanilla extract
for the cheesecake mixture
- 200 g smooth cream cheese
- 7.5 mls custard powder
- 15 g fructose
- 1 egg
- 2.5 mls vanilla extract
- 60 mls cream
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170° Celsius
for the brownie mixture
- Place the chocolate and butter into a glass mixing bowl and set over a bain-marie
- Melt over a medium temperature and then set aside to cool
- Place the eggs and fructose into a stand mixer bowl
- Use the baloon whisk to beat until pale and thick
- Pour the chocolate into the mixture and stir to combine
- Fold in the flour, salt, cherries and vanilla extract
- Pour into a lined brownie tin
for the cheesecake mixture
- Place all of the ingredients into a stand mixer bowl
- Use the baloon whisk to beat until smooth and well combined
- Drop spoonfuls of half of the mixture into the brownie mixture
- Fold through using a spatula to create swirls and repeat with the rest of the mixture
- Bake for 50 minutes until just nearly set
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin before cutting into squares
Notes
Disclosure: The recipe is printed with permission. This post is in line with my blogging policy.
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I wanna make this recipe and for some reason I want to try freezing the brownie bites, it seems like a great way to cool down. Gorgeous recipe Tandy!
What a great idea to freeze them!
Hmmmmm, methinks Mary Berry wouldn’t be too happy to read that there are grammatical errors and missing ingredients in a book by Mr Hollywood.
The recipe did not come from a book, but either way, there should not be any errors 🙂
Wow grammatical errors and missing ingredients? Where was it published? That’s no good at all!
The recipe was sent to me via a PR company. It is not the only one with errors!
Chocolate + cheesecake made into brownies are the best things ever. Absolutely loving these Tandy. 🙂
Thanks Anu 🙂
Hi Tandy, these brownies look delicious, sounds like the recipe did not need the amount of eggs that were noted, very interesting.
Very interesting indeed!
OMG, all my favorite food bloggers keep posting brownies today and it is making me so HUNGRY!!!!!!!!!!! – http://www.domesticgeekgirl.com
Must be a hint Gingi!
These look absolutely scrumptious, Tandy. 🙂
Thanks Sylvia 🙂
Sounds like a journey…but these are just plain wicked Tandy!
So worth the journey Jem 🙂