150gramsblock chocolate, roughly chopped into chunksor chocolate chips
80gramsmacadamia nutsoptional
Cheesecake topping
200gramscream cheeseroom temperature
60gramscastor sugar
1tbspvanilla extract
1 tspsalt
1egglarge
Instructions
Brownie
Preheat oven to 160 fan.
Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Set aside.
Add flour, cocoa and salt to Thermomix bowl and turbo 3 times at 1 second blasts to sieve flour. Transfer into a seperate bowl and set aside.
Add butter and chocolate chips to Thermomix bowl and melt 2 minutes/60℃/speed 2. Scrape down and repeat.
Add the flour mix, brown sugar, vanilla and eggs. Mix 5 secs/speed 5. Scrape down. Add additional chocolate and nuts and stir through with the spatula.
Tip most of the mix into lined baking tin, reserving about 6 tbsp of the mix.
Cheesecake topping
Add cream cheese, castor sugar and salt to Thermomix bowl. Add butterfly to bowl and mix 15 secs/speed 4. Scrape down.
Add egg and vanilla extract. Mix with the butterfly in place for a further 10 secs/speed 4.
Combining
Spread cheesecake topping over the chocolate brownie in the tin.
Add tablespoons of the reserved brownie mix and swirl through using a skewer.
Bake:27 mins for a soft gooey brownie30 mins for a fudgey moist brownie or33 mins for a cake like but still moist brownie.
Let Brownie sit in the tin for 15 minutes to set once out of the oven. Remove from tin but leave on the baking paper and cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes. Slice and serve.