Food & Wine
Red velvet cheesecake bars
Do you love red velvet? What about cheesecake? Well, we’ve combined the two for one delicious, extraordinary dessert.
Ingredients:
- 113g of unsalted butter
- 1 cup of sugar
- ¼ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon of salt
- 1 tablespoon of red food colouring
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup of flour
- ½ teaspoon of white vinegar
Filling
- 225g of cream cheese
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
Method:
- Line a 20 by 20cm baking pan and grease with extra butter. Preheat oven to 175°C.
- Melt butter. Combine in a large bowl with sugar, cocoa powder, food colouring, vanilla, and salt and stir. Add white vinegar. Stir.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs. Stir into batter.
- Pour in flour and fold until combined.
- Pour batter into baking pan, leaving half a cup behind.
- Filling: Using a mixer, mix all four filling ingredients together.
- Pour on top of batter in pan. Top with reserved batter. Swirl the cream cheese and extra batter together.
- Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
- Cut, top with whip cream if desired and serve.
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