Cheesecake Brownies-Cook Smart

Ingredients list for Cheesecake Brownies-Cook Smart

• 200 grams Cream cheese
• 100 grams Dark chocolate
• 75 grams Butter
• 125 grams Powdered sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Vanilla essence
• 1/2 cup + for dusting Refined flour (maida)
• 1 tablespoon Cocoa powder
• 5 tablespoons Castor sugar
• 1 Egg yolk
• 1/4 cups Chocolate chips
• for greasing Oil

Method

1. Preheat oven at 180º C.
2. Put dark chocolate with butter in a non-stick pan and cook on medium heat, stirring continuously, till the chocolate melts. Transfer into a bowl.
3. Add powdered sugar and mix well. Break eggs one at a time and add, stirring continuously. Add ½ tablespoon vanilla essence.
4. Sieve together ½ cup refined flour and cocoa powder into the bowl and fold in lightly till well blended.
5. Put cream cheese into another bowl and whisk well. Add castor sugar, remaining vanilla essence and egg yolk and whisk well.
6. Add chocolate chips to the chocolate-flour mixture and mix well.
7. Grease a round cake tin with oil and dust with some dry flour. Shake off excess.
8. Pour the chocolate-flour mixture, spoon dollops of cream cheese mixture on the top, keeping some distance between each dollop. Take a fork and swirl it around the mixture in the tin to create a marble effect.
9. Place the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 30-35 minutes.
10. Remove from the oven, cool down to room temperature, remove from the tin and transfer onto a serving plate. Cut into wedges and serve warm.