Cheesecake Brownie Cupcakes

This recipe is a delightful combination of a brownie layer baked nether a vanilla cheesecake layer; create I accept your attending yet? 

They are delicious as well as seriously going onto my vacation dessert tray this year. If you lot similar chocolate (duh!!) AND you lot similar cheesecake (double duh!!) you lot volition dearest these quick as well as elementary treats.

 

Brownie Layer
1 ounce semi-sweet chocolate
1/4 loving cup butter
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1/2 loving cup sugar
pinch salt
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 loving cup flour

Heat chocolate, cocoa and butter (I live on my microwave) only until melted, as well as then stir well and gear upwards aside to cool piece you lot create the adjacent step.

In some other medium size bowl mix sugar, egg as well as vanilla till smooth; add together melted chocolate/butter as well as flour as well as stir only until it looks good mixed (I create this yesteryear mitt - no mixer); gear upwards aside.

Cheesecake Layer
8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
1/3 loving cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Using electrical mixer, shell the cream cheese until it is rattling smooth. Add the sugar, egg as well as vanilla as well as proceed mixing until creamy smooth.

Preheat oven to 350°. Line cupcake pan amongst 12 foil liners. If you lot don't accept foil liners, you lot tin live on newspaper liners, but you lot volition accept to mist them amongst a picayune vegetable spray.

Put a rattling lightly rounded tablespoon of brownie batter inwards each cupcake foil as well as roughly spread it some a little.

Top the brownie layer amongst the cheesecake mixture, dividing it as betwixt the 12 cupcakes.
 
Bake for thirty minutes.  Remove from oven but create non take away from the cupcake pan. Let them sit down at room temperature for thirty minutes, as well as then chill inwards refrigerator (still inwards pan) for several hours.

I topped these picayune gems amongst a ganache (but you lot don't accept to).  To brand that, I only mixed a large handful of chocolate chips amongst 1/4 cup very hot (but not boiling) heavy cream, stirring until thick as well as smooth.

These are also very pretty at vacation time, topped amongst ruby pie filling as well as a swirl of whipped cream; it's kind of an individual black wood cake idea.