A few readers asked me for this recipe, and I am most happy to oblige. It might be a bit early for brownies in some parts of the world, but what the heck. And really, it's always a good time for brownies.
I don't have much desire to cook or bake during the summer, so when I must do so I use my toaster oven. Which is what I used for this recipe. So simple. In fact, this recipe was much more simple to develop than I anticipated.
Your choice is which of my brownie recipes to use. I decided to post this using my fudge brownies using coconut flour, but it will work with all of my brownie recipes.
If you've made the fudge brownies using coconut flour, you'll recognize the ingredients in the brownie part of this recipe are slightly modified. I added an extra tablespoon of maple syrup and 2 tablespoons of yogurt.
Cheesecake Brownies {coconut flour}
Ingredients
Brownie ingredients
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs
- ¾ cup maple syrup or honey
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted or coconut oil,melted
Cheesecake batter ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature or use yogurt, goat cheese, or Farmer's cheese
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C or gas mark 4).
- Line the bottom of a 8 inch x 8 inch (20.32 cm x 20.32 cm) baking pan with parchment paper, or grease it generously.
- Make the fudge brownie batter: mix the coconut flour, salt, cocoa powder, eggs, maple syrup, and butter until well blended.
- In a separate bowl, make the cheesecake batter: combine the cream cheese, maple syrup, vanilla, and egg and mix until blended.
- Pour the brownie mix into the baking pan. Next, pour the cheesecake batter on top of the brownie batter. Use a toothpick to swirl the cheesecake batter into the brownie batter.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the brownies comes out clean.
- Cool fully before slicing. These taste even better cold. Store in the refrigerator for a week or so, if they last that long!
Nutrition
Vanja says
Hi Erica,
thank you for the wonderful and tasty recipes. Your website is my favorite 🙂
Could you please share a tip regarding the sweetener for this recipe, but also in general. I'm using Erythrite and for these brownies, I used half the measure you suggested for cheesecake batter and 130g for the brownie ingredients, but still, the cake was too sweet.
Is there a way or formula to substitute maple syrup (honey) with Erythrite?
Hope my question makes sense, I'm a non-native English speaker.
Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Vanja
Erica says
Hi Vanja! Thank you 🙂 I would look at instructions for the Erythrite. They may recommend reducing the amount even further. You could also try low carb maple syrup or use Stevia and milk. Hope that helps!
Vanja says
Hi Erica! Thank you very much 🙂
Erica says
You're welcome 🙂
Jennifer says
You can make dripped/strained yogurt even more like cream cheese by mixing a little salt into the dripped yogurt, then turnout on a tea towel and put in fridge for a day or more, changing out the towel until it gets to the consistency of cream cheese!
Erica says
Definitely!
Sivanne Fishel says
Great! If you haven't tried KiteHill cream cheese, you should. It's delicious! I'm going to try the recipe with kitehill as sub on sat and will report back 🙂
Erica says
Yes, let me know how it goes! Wish it didn't have the gums and additives in it.
Sivanne Fishel says
Can I use KiteHill cream cheese as replacement for the cream cheese?
By the way, your banana bread recipe is fantastic! It doesn't last a day in my house. We are GF and DF 🙂
Erica says
Thanks! I don't see why not, I looked at the ingredients and based on their claims it should work.
Marcia says
Can you use egg replacement for the eggs?
Erica says
I haven't tried it, but my experience is that beyond 2 eggs, it doesn't work too well.
Jodi says
Can't wait to try these! However I am curious in what part of the world people think brownies are seasonal....brownies are for all the time. There is no brownie season and there is no brownie time of the day. Sometimes you must just suffer the heat of the oven because brownies are good. Brownies are good when you're happy. Brownies are good when you're sad. Brownies are good when you're hungry. Brownies are good when you're not hungry. They make a great lunch with peanut butter spread on them. They make a great dessert or snack or 'oh my gosh I don't want to go to work' breakfast treat. And the same goes for cheesecake.
Erica says
Amen. The art of the brownie 🙂 And so true about cheesecake!
Jonathan E Gibson says
Can Almond Milk Yogurt instead of the cream cheese for those of us with milk allergies?
Erica says
Yes! I've used sheep yogurt (thinner yogurt) and it came out great. You can also drip the dairy-free yogurt to reduce the moisture, but you'll need 8 ounces of dripped yogurt.