Sunday, June 22, 2014

MDBD - Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake on a Brownie Crust

Last weekend was Father's Day, so of course MDBD was an attempt to do something special for Scott. Zoey and I attempted to make this recipe for Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake on a Brownie Crust from Hugs & Cookies

Normally there would be a picture of our ingredients here. However, I apparently deleted it from my phone before I had actually uploaded it to the computer. You'll just have to use your imagination!

INGREDIENTS
Brownie Crust:
6 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus 1 T. butter to grease pan
1-¼ cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Flour
⅓ cups Unsweetened Cocoa
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup Peanut Butter Chips
6 whole Peanut Butter Cups, Cut Into Quarters - See more at: http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2014/03/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-cheesecake-brownie-crust.html#sthash.qWq2Ql9z.dpuf
Brownie Crust:
6 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus 1 T. butter to grease pan
1-¼ cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Flour
⅓ cups Unsweetened Cocoa
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup Peanut Butter Chips
6 whole Peanut Butter Cups, Cut Into Quarters - See more at: http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2014/03/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-cheesecake-brownie-crust.html#sthash.qWq2Ql9z.dpuf
Brownie Crust:
6 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus 1 T. butter to grease pan
1-¼ cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Flour
⅓ cups Unsweetened Cocoa
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup Peanut Butter Chips
6 whole Peanut Butter Cups, Cut Into Quarters - See more at: http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2014/03/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-cheesecake-brownie-crust.html#sthash.qWq2Ql9z.dpuf
Brownie Crust 
6 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus 1 T. butter to grease pan
1-¼ cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Flour
⅓ cups Unsweetened Cocoa
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup Peanut Butter Chips
6 whole peanut butter cups, cut into quarters


Cheesecake Batter
2 pounds Cream Cheese, Soft
5 eggs
1 ½ cups Brown Sugar, Firmly Packed
1 cup creamy Peanut Butter
½ cups Heavy Cream
1 Tablespoon Vanilla

Topping
(I didn't make the drizzle and instead just put the pb cups on top)
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
7 peanut butter cups, cut in half 

INSTRUCTIONS
Brownie Crust 
Preheat oven to 350°F
Butter a 9-inch springform pan
Stir together butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl
Add eggs
Stir in flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt
Spread in prepared pan
  Bake about 25 minutes
Remove from oven and sprinkle on choc chips, peanut butter chips and the peanut butter cups
  Lower oven to 325!!!!! 
Cheesecake Batter
Beat cream cheese in bowl of mixer until smooth
Add eggs, one at a time
Add sugar, peanut butter and cream until smooth
Add vanilla
Pour filling into pan
Make sure you lowered oven to 325 at this point
Wrap foil around springform sides and set in large roasting pan
Add hot water to roasting pan so it comes up 1 inch the sides of the pan
 Place entire roasting pan in the oven
Bake at 325 for 90 minutes
Let cool 1 hour
Run knife around edge and chill at least 4 hours
Out of the oven and took the knife around the edge
Finished product
I didn't really realize what all went into making a cheesecake in terms of the water bath and whatnot. It was way more work than I thought it was going to be. My crust ended up being very thick, as you can see from the above picture. This resulted in not all of the cheesecake batter fitting into the pan and I threw quite a bit away. Ninety minutes wasn't quite enough time to completely cook the cheesecake; however, I really wasn't able to tell this until after it had cooled, so when we cut into it there were some places that weren't as set up as the rest of it. However, it was still really good. But it was really rich, so we weren't able to eat very much of it.


6 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus 1 T. butter to grease pan
1-¼ cup Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Flour
⅓ cups Unsweetened Cocoa
½ teaspoons Baking Powder
½ teaspoons Salt
1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup Peanut Butter Chips
6 whole Peanut Butter Cups, Cut Into Quarters - See more at: http://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2014/03/reeses-peanut-butter-cup-cheesecake-brownie-crust.html#sthash.qWq2Ql9z.dpuf

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