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Cherry Cheesecake Brownies

Chocolate brownies with cheesecake and cherry jam
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Keyword Brownies
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 12
Author thebakingexplorer

Ingredients

For the brownies

  • 170 g Butter
  • 200 g Caster sugar
  • 2 Eggs large
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 200 g Plain flour
  • 30 g Cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 100 g White chocolate chopped
  • 110 g Cherries pitted and sliced in half

For the cheesecake topping

  • 120 g Full fat cream cheese
  • 1 jar of Tesco Finest Morello Cherry Jam
  • 30 g Caster sugar
  • 40 g Butter
  • 1 Egg large
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Pre-heat your oven to 180C/160C Fan/350F/Gas Mark 4, grease and line a 12" x 9" traybake tin
  • To make the brownie sponge start by melting the butter on a low heat, then let it cool for 5 minutes
  • In a bowl whisk up the caster sugar, the eggs and vanilla extract. Then whisk in the melted butter
  • Add in the plain flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder, and mix it all together
  • Then fold in the chopped white chocolate and prepared cherries
  • For the cheesecake top use an electric whisk to mix up egg, vanilla extract, the full fat cream cheese, butter and caster sugar until smooth
  • Pour the brownie mix into the tin, then pour over the cheesecake top
  • Add blobs of the jar of cherry jam all over the top, then swirl them around with the cheesecake mixture using a knife
  • Bake it for 25 minutes. Let the brownies cool fully, then refrigerated them for a couple of hours before slicing into squares and tucking in!