Sugar & Spice: Gluten-Free Sisters: Cheesecake Brownie Recipe

This is another one of favorite recipes. It's actually taken from the book called The Gluten Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg. It's a great recipe book that contains dinners to desserts.

These brownies were always my "go-to" brownies whenever I had to make something. People generally couldn't tell they were GF and always enjoyed them. My dad actually dubbed them my "man bait" brownies, because everyone knows a way to man's heart is through his stomach. :) But, I do you hope enjoy these brownies. I've made them so many times the recipe page has brown stains from batter I have spilled on it and the book lays perfectly flat when opened to the recipe. :)

Ingredients:
1 1/3 C sugar
1/2 C shortening
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

1/2 C potato starch flour *See Further Down*
3/4 C cornstarch *See Further Down*
3 teaspoons guar gum (aka xantham gum) * See Further Down*
(Flours and Xantham Gum can be replaced with 1 1/4 cups of gf flour mix (Domata or other brand)

3/4 C cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 C milk
1/4 teaspoon salt

For Cheesecake:
1 8oz package cream cheese - I used Hy-Vee brand - double check cream cheese for modified food starch
1/3 C softened butter
2 C powdered sugar

Now let's put it all together!

In a large bowl cream sugar and shortening. Now I made the mistake of not looking at my recipe before making it - so I didn't have any shortening. Thankfully my brother-in-law is a wizard in the kitchen and told me I could use butter but to add 2 tbsp per cup of butter. So I added 1/2 C butter + 1 tbsp butter and creamed it with the sugar.

Next we will add the eggs and vanilla. Then mix everything together.

Now we need to add the remaining ingredients. * I did something differently than what the recipes called for. This was the first time I used Domata flour instead of the potato starch, cornstarch & xantham gum. So added 1 1/4 C of the Domata flour and no extra xantham gum since it's already mixed into the Domata flour.*

Next, I decided to add some chocolate chips. The recipe doesn't call for them but I had remembered I had half a bag in the refrigerator and figured.....why not! :)

After mixing all these together, pour the brownie batter into a 9X13in greased pan

Next comes the cheesecake part. In a medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, butter & powdered sugar. Just make sure your cream cheese is softened otherwise you will spray powdered sugar all over like I did. :)