Peanut Butter Cheese Cake Brownies.

I admit, I have a problem. You see I'm sort of in love with Sweetened Condensed Milk. So I constantly search recipes to avoid just eating it straight from the can. Yes, I am that gross, don't judge me.

I also have a huge problem with chocolate and peanut butter together. I admit alone I'm not too huge on either, but put them together and it could be dangerous to put a child between me and them.

So when I found this recipe on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/pin/339370637/ I knew what I had to do. By knew what I had to do I mean that first I pinned it and clicked on it a few times a day reminding myself that I had all the things I needed to make it. Then I posted it to facebook, if I'm going to suffer, everyone there will too. Maybe if I'm lucky someone local will make them first and then I don't have to eat 75% of the pan of brownies myself. This plan didn't work, so today I broke down and made them.



First off the recipe calls to use your favorite fudgey brownie mix, personally I don't keep mixes. I'm not against them it's just that I have no will power. I've tried to keep them in the house for birthday cake emergencies but they never last longer then a week before that little voice in my head yells "MAKE ME A CAKE, BITCH!" So I found a fudgey brownie recipe and got to work. Start by setting your oven for 350*f

1/2c butter
2oz bittersweet chocolate
1/2c sugar
2 eggs
1/3c flour
pinch of salt

Melt butter and chocolate together, I did it in the microwave in 30sec increments. Stir together until smooth.

Stir in Sugar and eggs

Stir in flour and salt.

If you were just making brownies you would stop here and bake for 40 minutes. But we're not so we're just going to pour them in the greased pan and set then aside.



Well now we get to the fun part. I call it fun because I made the mistake of buying the cheapest hand mixer I could find and it's lowest speed is "fear for your hands while you awkwardly try to angle the flying batter away from the coffee maker"

So now we have our hand mixers ready, we're going to beat an 8oz brick of cream cheese until it's looks like this:



Add 1 can of sweetened condensed milk and 1/2c creamy peanut butter to the cream cheese and beat into submission, I mean until smooth. Then add one bag of Peanut Butter chips [the original recipe called for Reese's Pieces].



Spoon evenly over brownie batter:



Bake for 40mins until it looks like this


Mix a bag of milk chocolate chips with 3 tbsp of heavy cream [I used half and half] and microwave on high for 1min, stir until smooth and spread over the top.



Cover and chill, then eat until it takes heavy machinery and Richard Simmons to get you out of your house.