Brownie Cheesecake

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 (20 ounce) package fudge brownie mix
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1 (4 ounce) jar prune baby food
• 1 egg
• to taste vegetable oil cooking spray
• 1 cup nonfat cottage cheese
• 16 ounces neufchatel cheese, softened
• 8 ounces fat-free cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate, mini morsels

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl; stir well.
• 3 spread into bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray.
• 4 bake at 350 for 25 minutes; let cool on a wire rack.
• 5 tear brownies into small pieces.
• 6 press half of pieces into bottom of a 9-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray. set aside.
• 7 preheat oven to 300.
• 8 place cottage cheese in a large bowl; beat at medium high speed of a mixer until almost smooth.
• 9 add cream cheeses; beat until smooth.
• 10 add sugar, vanilla, and salt; beat well.
• 11 add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 12 stir in chocolate. pour half of cheese mixture into prepared pan; top with remaining brownie pieces.
• 13 pour remaining cheese mixture over brownie pieces.
• 14 bake at 300 for 40 minutes or until almost set. turn oven off, and let cheesecake stand for 40 minutes in oven with door closed.
• 15 remove cheesecake from oven, and let cool to room temperature. cover and chill at least 8 hours.