As you can tell from my very slack posting I have been quite busy lately with family staying, busy at work and other things! So here is a very brief posting on this week’s TWD recipe which was chosen by Melissa of Life in a Peanut Shell and is Espresso Cheesecake Brownie. I made these for when I hosted book club at my house last week and they went down a real treat. Once again I must apologise for a rather terrible photo of a really delicious treat – a busy life means hurried photos.
These cheesecake brownie were more cheesecake than brownie – a brownie base with an espresso flavoured cheesecake topping and then a layer of sweetened sour cream on top. I am not a coffee drinker, but the coffee flavour of the cheesecake topping was not so pronounced as to bother a non coffee drinker. I am not sure what the sour cream topping added to be honest. I would have been just as happy without it. My sour cream topping didn’t set all that well – maybe the consistency of sour cream in New Zealand is different to that in the US?
Anyway, the result was that all the girls at book club loved the brownie. I did too - it was simple to make, although it did take a lot of ingredients. But, I would make it again. See if the other TWDers loved it as well here.
Hi Tammy
ReplyDeleteI just checked the list of ingreds in my sour cream and you are spot on. My sour cream in the US has a whole bunch of additives in it - guar gum, gelatin to name a few....they would both affect the 'setting' abilities of it.
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Yoiur brownies look great - so glad you liked them. To make sure thta I resisted temptation, I took them to work and only had half of one - because this is the kind of thing that I could readily eat the whole pan!
ReplyDeleteGlad they were a hit at book club. I don't think the sour cream was supposed to 'set' all that much.
ReplyDeleteYour brownies turned out great! Very tasty looking! My cheesecake portion didn't completely set. A bummer but they were still good!
ReplyDeleteI agree - the sour cream topping was just a little odd for me. I skipped it :) Yours look wonderful though!
ReplyDeletethe sour cream that i buy in the US doesn't have additives, but i always check the ingredients to make sure i buy a brand that doesn't contain them. that said, when we were in australia, i found sour cream to be very different from what i was used to, and had to buy about 10 different kinds before i found one that was similar! anyway, i'm sure your brownies were a hit with the book club...forget the books, i'd go just for your treats!
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious. Again, I skipped the topping. I think it's a habit...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad yo enjoyed it Tammy! It wasn't my favorite, but I didn't hate it either :-P
ReplyDeleteIm glad you liked them. Life does get crazy busy and it's nice we can have a break to bake!
ReplyDeleteI like the look with the topping.
ReplyDeleteI almost wish I had made the topping.
My topping didn't really set, either, and I'm with you - don't know that it added much to the dessert. And I'm thinking maybe I would have liked more brownie than cheesecake!
ReplyDeleteGerman sour cream is just soured cream, so I used some gelatin to fix it :-)
ReplyDeleteYours look very tasty ...
Ulrike @ Küchenlatein
My brownies disappeared before I could put the sour cream topping on. Sounds like we didn't miss anything. Glad you and your friends enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteMy topping didn't set either, but I scraped it off anyway, so didn't matter.
ReplyDeleteYours look great.