I am a cheesecake girl.
Loud and proud.
Like, if I were on death row and had to pick a last meal it would start and end with cheesecake.
Not that I have thought about that possibility or anything. Whatever.
And since I am scared of making an actual cheesecake I stick with cheesecake bars.
Who doesn’t like cheesecake you can eat with your hands. I mean…
So I made eat-with-your-hands cheesecake. Actually it’s caramel cheesecake. And actually-actually it’s all on top of a brownie bottom.
Because brownie bottoms are where it’s at.
So yeah, Brownie Bottom Caramel Cheesecake Bars. Do it.
All you need to to do it whip up a brownie crust, starting with a box of brownie mix and a few other ingredients. Easy.
Then mix up your cheesecake layer, and add in some caramel sauce. See?
Pour that over the brownie situation and you’re good to go.
Bake it and drizzle more caramel. Because it’s dope to drizzle.
Did I just say that? Eww.
Brownie Bottom Caramel Cheesecake Bars
Description
makes 32 bars
Ingredients
- 1 (19.5-19.8 oz) pkg Brownie Mix
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 4 eggs
- 2 (8 oz) pkgs cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp flour
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 (14 oz) jar caramel sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Spray a 9×13 pan with cooking spray.
- Combine brownie mix, melted butter and 1 egg, stirring until smooth. Spread mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile in your mixer, beat cream cheese, sour cream, brown sugar, flour and vanilla until combined and smooth.
- Turn mixer to low and add remaining eggs, one at a time. Finally add half the jar of caramel sauce. Eyeball it.
- Pour this over the hot crust.
- Bake for an additional 30 minutes until the center of cheesecake is just set.
- Remove from oven and cool completely. Then refrigerate at least 4 hours.
- When ready to serve, drizzle remaining caramel on top.
- Cut into squares.
Notes
store in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Oh boy…these look dangerous..and fabulous!
Holy crapola, these look amazing. I love cheesecake too. In fact, I’ve not made a cheesecake in a while now though. My partner loves cheesecake too and at one point, I used to make 1 or 2 every week just for him.
Definitely going to make these for him and then see if he demands I make it once or twice a week, hehe. Thanks for sharing.
These are pretty much three of my favorite combined into one! Gorgeous photos…and they look DELICIOUS! 🙂
Now I know why I read your blog every chance I get!
My mouth is literally drooling. Well, not literally, because that would be gross but these look AMAZING!!!
Looks good! I made a brownie cheesecake once, but the cheesecake took forever to bake (as usual), and the brownie was overcooked on the sides 🙁
This may be a good time to give it another try, though…
Dope to drizzle? Hahaha. Thank you for that. 😀
These look incredible! I think that a whole grain version is in order. 🙂 We don’t have brownie mix here anyway so I’d be forced to make a homemade version. Nor we do have caramel sauce! Or proper cream cheese while we’re at it. I’ll stop whining now.
And there’s no need to be afraid of cheesecake. Even if it cracks, you can cover it in ganache. Problem solved!
Each layer of these bars looks perfect!!!!! I’d love to dig into one right now to help me over the afternoon hump at work….
How are you not 500 pounds?!? 😉 I just gained 10 LOOKING at this deliciousness.
I adore cheesecake. Funny cause I used to hate it as a kid.