Caramel Brownie Cheesecake | National Cheesecake Day!

My really get-go chore was at The Daily Grind inwards Lexington. It was form of a gourmet coffee, bakery as well as cafe - homemade desserts, muffins, stuffed croissants, as well as handcrafted cappuccinos as well as lattes. Pretty fancy for a modest town! At least, I idea therefore when I worked in that place inwards high school.

One of my weekly duties was to brand the cheesecakes. Now y'all must understand, that this was inwards the 90's correct inwards the midst of the Cheesecake craze. The Cheesecake Factory was simply becoming the hot appointment topographic point alongside my friends (that had boyfriends who could drive...), the Jell-O Nobake Cheesecake was the nearly pop dessert at potlucks... cheesecake was the dessert.

When I learned how to brand this Cheesecake, this Caramel Brownie Cheesecake, I recall thinking that it was a actually large deal. It was something special.

Somewhere along the way, Cheesecake had lost its condition inwards my recipe repertoire. It had fallen victim to cupcakes, tiramisu, molten cakes, as well as gourmet brownies. Maybe it was the countless pieces I would consume during my days at The Daily Grind? Maybe the Jell-O Nobake "Cheesecake" had ruined my sense of savor for a existent cheesecake?

H5N1 duo of months ago, nosotros ordered a dessert platter that featured a field of cheesecake amid 3 other desserts. As the tabular array passed the tray as well as sampled each slice, everyone would say, "Oh the cheesecake is amazing." I agreed. I had forgotten how adept a existent field of cheesecake could be.

So, inwards accolade of National Cheesecake Day, I prepared the infamous cake of cheese that started it all for me, The Daily Grind's Caramel Brownie Cheesecake.

Caramel Brownie Cheesecake
serves 12

Crust :
12 graham crackers
half dozen tablespoons of butter

Filling :
ii cups of leftover brownie crumbles
1/3 loving cup of caramel sauce

four blocks of 8oz cream cheese, room temperature
1 1/2 loving cup of sugar
four eggs
1/4 loving cup of sour cream
1 1/2 tablespoons of vanilla

Prepare the crust past times breaking the graham crackers into crumbs past times paw or inwards a nutrient processor. Melt butter as well as stir into graham crumbles with a fork. Pack the mixture into a springform pan packing one-half agency upwardly the sides. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

For the filling, inwards a mixer, whip together cream cheese as well as sugar. Add eggs, sour cream as well as vanilla.

Crumble the brownies into the cooked crust, as well as therefore drizzle with the caramel sauce. Pour cream cheese filling over the brownies as well as caramel.

Bake at 450 for twenty minutes, as well as therefore lower oven to 250 as well as bake for 1 threescore minutes as well as xv minutes. Allow to sit down at room temperature for 1-2 hours, as well as therefore twine as well as refrigerate for four hours - overnight.

Pour inwards graham cracker as well as butter mixture.

I role a drinking glass to pack the bottom as well as the sides. H5N1 criterion loving cup likewise industrial plant great. Whatever y'all convey around!