Brownies of Awesome and Doom
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stillsostrangeOr, Blueberry Cheesecake Brownies
(These have an origin story. At a friend's birthday last weekend, we were playing No More Heroes--which is awesome--and at one point the MC shouts something at an opponent that we couldn't understand. Two of us heard "blueberry cheese brownie!" This must be wrong, but that sounded so awesome I had to make them.)
Brownies:
5 tablespoons butter
2 ounces semisweet chocolate (I used unsweetened because that was what I had)
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Cheesecake:
8 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 healthy glug of amaretto (optional)
Blueberries
Grease a square baking pan.
Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter and chocolate, stir. Marvel at the molten substance in the bowl.
Beat in eggs, sugar, and vanilla.
Marvel some more. Taste batter. Mmm.
Mix in flour and baking powder.
Pour into the pan.
Melt the cream cheese. Stir in egg, sugar, vanilla, and booze. Marvel.Eat all the batter.
Pour the cheesey goodness on top of brownie goodness. Cut with a knife to marble. Add blueberries.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
Let cool for a bit. Nom nom nom!
Since I used unsweetened chocolate, and a little less than half a cup of sugar in the cheesecake, mine came out not as sweet as might be desired. If you do use unsweet chocolate, don't cut the sugar.
The blueberries are kind of lost in the tastebud devastation that is BROWNIE CHEESECAKE, sadly. Not that you need them when you have BROWNIE CHEESECAKE. I may try some other ingredient next time I make these.
(These have an origin story. At a friend's birthday last weekend, we were playing No More Heroes--which is awesome--and at one point the MC shouts something at an opponent that we couldn't understand. Two of us heard "blueberry cheese brownie!" This must be wrong, but that sounded so awesome I had to make them.)
Brownies:
5 tablespoons butter
2 ounces semisweet chocolate (I used unsweetened because that was what I had)
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Cheesecake:
8 ounces cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 healthy glug of amaretto (optional)
Blueberries
Grease a square baking pan.
Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter and chocolate, stir. Marvel at the molten substance in the bowl.
Beat in eggs, sugar, and vanilla.
Marvel some more. Taste batter. Mmm.
Mix in flour and baking powder.
Pour into the pan.
Melt the cream cheese. Stir in egg, sugar, vanilla, and booze. Marvel.
Pour the cheesey goodness on top of brownie goodness. Cut with a knife to marble. Add blueberries.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
Let cool for a bit. Nom nom nom!
Since I used unsweetened chocolate, and a little less than half a cup of sugar in the cheesecake, mine came out not as sweet as might be desired. If you do use unsweet chocolate, don't cut the sugar.
The blueberries are kind of lost in the tastebud devastation that is BROWNIE CHEESECAKE, sadly. Not that you need them when you have BROWNIE CHEESECAKE. I may try some other ingredient next time I make these.
