Peanut Butter Cheesecake Blondies

Peanut Butter Cheesecake Blondies are soft and gooey blondies topped with a creamy cheesecake and swirled with a chocolate peanut butter swirl. It really doesn’t get any better than this!

We all know I love a good blondie. Blondies are the ‘blonde’ counterpart to a brownie. That means we get a rich caramel/vanilla, fudgy blondie as apposed to chocolate. What’s not to love?

Only one bowl is required and no mixer needed! Five minutes of your time and you will have whipped up the beautiful blondie base!

Today we take the beloved blondie one or two steps further. First with a cheesecake layer. Cheesecake blondies are about to become your new favourite thing my friends. We have the soft and fudgy vanilla base with a creamy, tangy top. In other words: Sweet, creamy, fudgy goodness!

To make these cheesecake just beat the cream cheese with the other ingredients until smooth. That’s it! Ensure your cream cheese is at room temperature to stop any lumps.

Oh but it doesn’t stop there. Oh no.

Not even close.

We then melt together milk chocolate and peanut butter to create a gorgeous, silky, peanut butter chocolate mixture to swirl throughout the cheesecake. Just look at those pockets of chocolate peanut butter!

** You could omit the chocolate and just swirl the peanut butter if you want these chocolate free. (Are you crazy?!) **

These are made in an 8″x8″ baking pan and I use an all natural peanut butter as I prefer natural as opposed to peanut butter with additives. You can use any peanut butter you like with no change to the method.

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Peanut Butter Cheesecake Blondies

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

Chilling

2 hrs

Total Time

50 mins

 

Soft and gooey blondies topped with a creamy cheesecake and swirled with a chocolate peanut butter swirl.

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cheesecake, Cheesecake Blondies, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Blondies, Peanut Butter Cheesecake Blondies, Peanut Butter Chocolate

Servings: 12 Pieces

Calories: 316 kcal

Author: Emma Burton

Ingredients

Blondie;

• 75 g Butter, Melted (1/3 Cup)
• 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
• 1 Large Egg
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 Cup All Purpose Flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
• 3/4 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/8 tsp Salt
• 1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

Cheesecake;

• 125 g Cream Cheese, Room Temperature
• 1/4 Cup Greek Yoghurt
• 1/2 Cup Icing Sugar
• 1 Large Eggs
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Chocolate Peanut butter Sauce;

• 100 g Milk Chocolate
• 80 g Peanut Butter

Instructions

1. First make the blondie.

2. Line an 8"x8" baking tin.

3. Melt the butter and mix the with brown sugar.

4. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat in.

5. Stir in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until all combined.

6. Stir in all the chocolate chips and then pour into the prepared tin and set aside.

7. Now make the cheesecake layer.

8. Beat the cream cheese until smooth.

9. Add in the Greek yoghurt, icing sugar, vanilla extract and egg and beat until smooth.

10. Pour over the blondie mixture and set aside.

11. Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F).

12. Melt the chocolate and peanut butter together and pour over the cheesecake layer and swirl through.

13. Bake for 30 minutes.The middle will wobble very slightly and the tops and sides will be set.

14. This can be eaten from straight from the oven but tastes better once it has chilled for at least two hours or overnight.