Cook’s notes
We already have chocolate cheesecake brownies and red velvet cheesecake bars so let’s add to the duo to create a trio of cheesecake topped dessert bars. The brownie batter is made with brown sugar, butter, eggs, flour, baking powder and salt. Sweet, yes. So we temper the sweetness with a topping that is salty and sweet at the same time. Result? Magnificent.
Light or dark brown sugar?
Either will work. BUT it’s not only the color that will vary. The texture will be different too. I find that dark brown sugar is ideal for making moist and chewy butterscotch brownies.How to create the swirls
Plow through the brownie mix by running the knife or spatula along the length of the batter. When you’re half an inch from the opposite end, make a U-Turn about two inches to your left (or right, depending on which side of the pan you started), and run the knife or spatula again to the other end. Make a U-Turn once more, go the opposite direction again, and so on, and so forth, until you have plowed through the entire length and breadth of the batter.Butterscotch cheesecake brownies
Ingredients
Butterscotch batter
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
Cheesecake batter
- 250 grams cream cheese (about 8.8 ounces) at room temperature
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Line a 9″x6″ pan with baking paper. Leave overhangs on the long sides so that you can lift the uncut baked brownies later.
- Place the butter in a mixing bowl and microwave on HIGH for 30 to 45 seconds or just until melted.
- Stir the brown sugar into the butter. Cool.
- Meanwhile, in another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- When the butter-sugar has cooled a bit, beat in the eggs.
- Add the flour mixture and mix until smooth. The batter will be thick.
- Pour into the prepared baking pan, scraping the sides of the bowl to get all of the batter into the pan.
- Beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
- Add the egg and mix until incorporated.
- Drop the cream cheese mixture by tablespoonful on the butterscotch batter.
- Using a blunt knife, swirl the cream cheese into the butterscotch.
- Bake at 350F for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Cool the uncut brownies in the pan for about 15 minutes.
- Lift out the whole thing by holding the wax paper. Transfer to a cutting board and cool some more.
- Cut into rectangles or squares.
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