Recipe - Kahlua Cheesecake Bars

BROWNIE LAYER
6 tablespoon Unsalted butter or margarine
6 ounce Semisweet chocolate
Three fourths cup All purpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
Three fourths cup Lightly brown sugar, packed
2 lg Eggs
1 tablespoon Instant espresso coffee

CHEESECAKE LAYER
8 ounce Cream cheese, softened
One half cup Sugar
2 tablespoon All purpose flour
2 lg Eggs
3 tablespoon Kahlua or strong coffee
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon

SOUR CREAM LAYER
1 One half cup Sour cream
1/3 cup Sugar

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 13 X 9 inch pan.

2. BROWNIE LAYER: Melt butter and chocolate in a small saucepan over low
heat. Set aside to cool.

3. Mix flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl beat brown sugar,
eggs, powdered coffee and vanilla until blended. Stir in cooled
chocolate mixture. Spread batter in an even layer in prepared pan.

4. CHEESECAKE LAYER: Beat cream cheese, sugar and flour in a large bowl
with an electric mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Add
eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Beat in liqueur, vanilla
and cinnamon. Carefully pour over brownie layer and spread in an even
layer. Bake 20 minutes until the top is almost set.

5. MEANWHILE MAKE SOUR CREAM LAYER: Mix sour cream and sugar. After bars
have baked 20 minutes, remove pan from oven and carefully spread sour
cream
mixture over top. Return to oven and bake 10 minutes longer. Cool pan
completely on wire rack before cutting in bars.

Makes 24 bars.

Per bar: 237 calories, 3g protein, 3g carbohydrates, 15g fat, 67mg
cholestrol with butter ( 59mg cholestrol with margarine), 83mg sodium,
Exchanges: 1 starch, One half other carbohydrate, 3 fat.

Source: Woman's Day March 12, 1996

From the recipe files of suzy@gannett.infi.net
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #257

Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:38:49 0400 (EDT)

From: suzy suzy@gannett.infi.net