Hi Guys, I am Laura Vitale. On this episode of Laura in the Kitchen I am going to show
you how to make Brownie Cheesecake Bites. These have been so crazy requested and I have
been putting it off for a very long time but, I don't know why. So now it's time to go ahead
and make them. First thing you are going to do is to go over the ingredients so we can
get started. You are going to need some semi-sweet chocolate chips, granulated sugar, all purpose
flour, eggs, unsalted butter, vanilla extract, cocoa powder, salt, egg yolk, bit more sugar
and some cream cheese. Those are your ingredients to make these bites of absolute heaven. I
love, love these things, but they are dangerous because I can't stop eating them. They have
my two favorite things, cheesecake and brownie, all together. It is like impossible to resist
them. First thing you want to do is get your oven to 350F. Second thing you want to do is
take a mini muffin tin and line them with little muffin liners. You can do this with
regular cupcake tins if you don't have the mini ones, you just won't get 30 of them,
probably will get about a dozen and cooking time will vary. Obviously! OK! Let's get started,
we are going to take the semi-sweet chocolate chips and butter, and all I am going to do is
put this in the microwave until they are melted and going to make sure to stir them until
they are all combined. It will take about a minute or so. Make sure you keep an eye
on them. That looks perfect! In this big bowl, we are going to add the sugar and the eggs
and I am just going to whisk them for about a minute. I want them to be really light and
fluffy. This is going to be my workout for the day, just go ahead and mix those up. That
looks awesome! Now to that we are going to add our melted chocolate mixture with the
butter, put that right in there. Also going to add the vanilla extract, just mix that
up. Looks good! Time for our flour, cocoa and salt. Just mix those in to combine and
don't over mix though and just make sure to mix just till you don't see the raw flour
anymore. This looks Awesome! Now, I am going to use a small ice cream scoop and you want
to fill these about two thirds of the way full, you don't want to fill them up all the
way. That is perfect because we are going to top them with a cheesecake filling that
we are going to make as soon as I have these filled up. Last one! Just going to set these
aside, wash my hands, get a clean bowl, so we can make our cheesecake filling. To make
the cream cheese filling, all we are going to do is add the cream cheese into this bowl
and it is really important that the cream cheese is a room temperature, it needs to
be really soft in order for this to blend well. We are going to need one egg yolk, little
bit of sugar and I am just going to use my whisk and get this all mixed up. That's it!
It is as simple as that! I know it doesn't look like a lot because you are just going
to need about a teaspoon in order to just put - just like so. Just put one teaspoon
right in there and that's it. You don't have to mix it or twirl it in. Nothing, it is as
simple as that. Now these are going into preheated oven for about 20 minutes or until you insert
tooth pick into the middle and it comes out a tiny bit moist, not wet. It will take about
20 minutes and then we will let them cool completely before digging in. These baked
for 20 minutes and I let them cool completely and they are absolutely done! All I am going
to do is pop them on a plate and it is as simple as that. Just to go the extra mile
here and what I really love to do, and I will do it on a few of them so you can see is to
just kind of dust them with confectioners sugar. They look pretty, they give a little
extra touch of sweetness. A little touch of sweetness never hurt anybody, simple as that.
To get this recipe and others, you know where to go www.laurainthekitchen.com and I will
see you next time. Bye bye!
I don't know what possessed me, but I forgot to take a bite. Unacceptable in my book. So Good!