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Cheesecake or brownies? This dessert recipe won’t make you choose

By Ellise Pierce
When you just want a bite or two of chocolate, make these Cheesecake brownie bites. (Then have another one or two, because they’re so small.)
When you just want a bite or two of chocolate, make these Cheesecake brownie bites. (Then have another one or two, because they’re so small.) Ellise Pierce Special to the Star-Telegram

The French love affair with chocolate is impossible to miss.

From chocolate shops on nearly every block in Paris to grocery cereal aisles filled with boxes of cornflakes with chocolate pieces to the small, wrapped square of chocolate that comes on the side with your espresso even in the most modest of cafes, the importance of chocolate is indisputable. It is part of everyday life.

Chocolate reminds us to stop doing whatever we’re doing, and savor its bitter/sweet/fruity/caramelly flavors. Then we can go on.

If I had to have only one dessert, it would probably be brownies. I love them plain, with nuts, with swirls of peanut butter, and these, with cream cheese — far better than any cheesecake.

Adapted from a David Lebovitz recipe. A version of this story originally published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

This story was originally published February 15, 2022 at 8:16 AM with the headline "Cheesecake or brownies? This dessert recipe won’t make you choose."

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