I've always loved chocolate and I've always loved cheese. So, when the two appear in front of me in a double-layered posture, it is destined that this will be a cake that I will make again and again. The cheesecake pairs with the wonderful taste of brownie's double rich silkiness, and this winter, it's really warm to have it.
Brownie cheesecake
(6 inch round mold one)
Brownie ingredients
50 grams of butter, 50 grams of dark chocolate (about 55%), 50 grams of caster sugar, 40 grams of eggs (whole egg mixture), 20 grams of plain yogurt, 50 grams of medium gluten flour
Cheesecake toppings
Kiri cream cheese 200 g, caster sugar 40 g, egg (whole egg mixture) 50 g, vanilla extract 1/2 tsp (2.5 ml), plain yogurt 60 g
Production process
The cake needs to be baked twice, starting with the brownie portion
Cut the dark chocolate and butter into small pieces, heat them in hot water or in a microwave oven, and stir continuously with a spatula until the butter and chocolate are completely melted into a liquid state.
Choose dark chocolate with a cocoa content of about 55% to make it more in line with most people's taste preferences.
To the melted chocolate butter mixture, add the caster sugar, whole egg mixture, yogurt and stir well.
After mixing well, sift the flour through a sieve into a liquid mixture.
Choosing medium gluten flour can better support the structure of the brownie, but if you only have low gluten flour, it can also be used.
Finally, mix well again so that the flour and liquid mixture are completely fused to become a batter. The entire brownie batter is made with a spatula and stirred.
Prepare a 6-inch cake round mold, it is recommended to use an anti-stick mold. The non-stick mold should be applied to the inner wall with a thin layer of butter in advance to prevent stickiness.
Pour brownie batter into a mold, smooth out and prepare to bake.
Preheat oven to 180°C on top and bottom heat. Place the mold in the middle of the oven and bake for about 15 minutes. Please adjust the baking temperature and time according to the actual situation of the oven.
Bake until the brownie surface solidifies. Don't over-bake (if you bake until the brownies are completely bulging, it's over-baking).
Remove the mold and pour into the cheesecake batter you'll make next (see next steps).
Then see how the cheesecake batter is made
This cheesecake batter I made with Kiri cream cheese, cheesecake batter can be made in advance or in the process of baking brownies.
First we need to soften the Kiri cream cheese at room temperature (done in advance). Remove the packaging and pour it into a large bowl.
Add sugar to the softened cream cheese and whisk thoroughly with an electric whisk (a handheld low-power wireless whisk is not suitable for this operation). Whisk the cream cheese until smooth and particle-free.
Subsequently, add a small and a half whole egg mixture to the cream cheese, continue to beat well with an electric whisk, and then add the remaining whole egg mixture and beat well.
Kiri's cream cheese itself is very delicate and smooth, soft and uniform, and its stability is very good, which makes it very easy to stir to a very smooth texture, including the process of adding egg liquid emulsification, which will be very simple and easy to operate.
Finally, add the yogurt, vanilla extract and whisk again to make the cheesecake paste ready.
Pour the cheesecake batter over the brownies that have just been baked and removed from the oven.
Pour the cheesecake paste all in and it will naturally become flat. Lower the oven temperature to 160°C, put the cake mold back into the oven, lower in the middle layer (make sure the top is not too close to the heat pipe), and bake for about 35 minutes.
Tips
To make a delicious cheesecake, the quality of the cream cheese is crucial.
Kiri's cream cheese has always had a great reputation among baking enthusiasts and hardly needs to be introduced, but I still want to talk about it – not only because of its delicate and silky texture, but also because of its naturally healthy taste without added gum, but also because it balances acidity so well, it's the feeling of "Well, that's it" when you taste it in your mouth. So, it's always been my perfect choice for making cheesecake, and I'd love to give it a try.
Bake until the cheesecake surface is bulging as shown above and ready to bake. Remember not to be too high for baking (please adjust the oven temperature according to the actual situation). It is normal for cheesecake to have slight cracks on the surface, but if there is an explosive crack, the temperature is too high.
The surface of the baked cheesecake does not necessarily have to be colored, but only needs to be baked until it bulges, gently shakes the mold, and there is no sense of flow in the center, and it can be baked.
The degree of baking is important: whether it is a brownie or a cheesecake, if it is over-baked, it will cause a great loss of taste (especially brownie, which will be very dry if it is over-baked).
Brownie cheesecake cools and demolds.
Refrigerate overnight before serving. It tastes better at low temperatures (4°C).
Once you've cut the chunks, you can share them with your friends!
Finally, I'll share another recipe with you
As I said earlier, Kiri cream cheese is the perfect choice for me to make cheesecake, but Kiri cream cheese has a wider range of uses, and its excellent taste makes the biscuits and breads made with it a different experience.
For example, the following Kiri cheese popsicle, full of cheese filling gives people a great sense of satisfaction. The combination of soft baguette and high-calcium high-protein cheese, I recommend everyone to try ha!
Let me share with you how to eat a popsicle:
Put the ice lollipole in the oven and heat it slightly for 8 minutes (in the case of no preheating), 230-250 ° C can be, the ice lollipole after heating is crispy on the outside and ice inside, a bit like ice cream; if in winter, it is recommended that the finished product can be baked for a while, and the filling and the outer skin will not be too ice when eaten together.
Finally, you can also try to change other bread bodies, with this cheese filling will be delicious, you can also add other flavors of ingredients (cocoa powder, matcha powder, jam, etc.) on the basis of cheese filling to change different flavors of cheese filling to match the bread.
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