Baileys, Nutella, cheesecake, chocolate… many favourites in one delicious brownie
These are brilliant! I can’t remember what recipe I was looking for… but fortunately my search caused me to stumble across this recipe on the Good Housekeeping website. I made a couple of small changes to the recipe but the Baileys-Nutella combination with the cheesecake swirl is lovely and I can’t recommend these enough.
Ingredients (makes 16 – 32 brownies depending on how big you cut them)
For the Baileys Nutella brownie base:
- 250 g / 9 oz Nutella (or any chocolate hazelnut spread. I used a supermarket’s own version)
- 150 g / 5 oz either light brown sugar or caster sugar (the original recipe calls for light brown sugar but I didn’t have enough and had to use caster and the brownies turned out perfectly!)
- 3 eggs (medium or large)
- 50 ml / 2 fl oz Baileys Irish Cream
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 50 g / 2 oz cocoa powder
- 150 g/ 5 oz butter or baking margarine (plus a little extra for greasing your brownie tin)
- 75 g / 3 oz plain flour
For the cheesecake swirl:
- 100 g / 3.5 oz cream cheese (aka soft cheese)
- 25 g/ 1 oz caster sugar
- 50 ml / 2 fl oz Baileys Irish Cream
- 50 g / 2 oz Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread)
Method
Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees C (160 fan) / Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F. Grease and line your brownie tin. My brownie tin is slightly larger than the 8 inch (20 cm) square tin the original recipe calls for, and it worked just fine.
Melt the butter in a large bowl. You can do this in a pan over a low heat or, like me, use the microwave. Heat the butter using short bursts (30 seconds at a time), stopping and stirring between bursts until all the butter has melted.
In a large bowl, beat together 250 g Nutella with the sugar, eggs, Baileys and vanilla extract. If you have one, use an electric hand whisk or a stand mixer to make this a lot easier. Mix the ingredients until smooth.
Add the melted butter, cocoa powder and flour, mixing between additions.
In a separate bowl, beat together the cheesecake swirl ingredients until combined.
Pour the chocolate mixture into your lined brownie tin and spread out to form an even layer.
Drop spoonfuls of the cheesecake mixture onto the brownie layer.
Use a skewer or knife the drag the cheesecake mixture through the chocolate mixture to create a marbled effect.
Bake your Baileys Nutella cheesecake brownies for about 30 minutes. Remember that brownies, unlike cake, can still be a little gooey when you take them out of the oven. However, the contents of the tin shouldn’t wobble! I turned the oven off after 30 minutes, but left the brownies in for another 5 minutes.
Leave the brownies to cool completely in the tin. This can take a while!
Slice into as many slices as you like and serve either cold, warm with ice cream…mmmm….
These brownies are delicious. I was surprised by how much you can taste the Baileys 🙂
If you’re looking for more brownie recipes, try:
Jaffa Cake chocolate orange brownies.
Chocolate cheesecake brownies.
After Eight mint chocolate brownies.
Wow these all look so good! 🙂
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They were so yummy and you could really taste the Baileys 🙂
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These look amazing!
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Even though I say so myself, they were absolutely delicious!
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I may have just died and gone to heaven!
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That’s what I thought when I took the first bite! 🙂
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Cheesecake and brownies! Yum.
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I was surprised by just how much they tasted of Baileys – lovely! 🙂
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These look fantastic, Claire
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Thank you! They were delicious and a great way to use the Baileys I always forget to drink! 🙂
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Oh my goodness! Those sound really good. You are a genius!
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I wish I could take the credit for the original idea as it’s a great way to use up Baileys. I don’t know why, but there always seems to be a half-drunk bottle hanging round after Christmas!
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That is true. Good recipe!
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You are so very bad for me. Please don’t ever change.
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Hahahaha! I won’t! 😉
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These brownies sound absolutely brilliant!
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They were delicious. I’m now wondering if I can experiment with various flavours of Baileys as I believe they make an orange chocolate and mint choc version…
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Oh I didn’t know that! Sounds delicious.
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Groan…stop it…I’ve already added calories just by reading the recipe.
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Sorry! 🙂
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Is this paradise?????
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I honestly thought the same thing when I took the first bite! 🙂
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Wow- these brownies look and sound amazing!! Enjoy!! 😀
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Thank you!
I think I need to make more of them 🙂
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You’re welcome! 🙂
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Oh wow!!! I have to make these! 🙂
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If I wouldn’t get accused if making everyone fat, I’d make them every week! 🙂
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I wouldn’t accuse you! 😉
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