Peanut Butter Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Bread Recipes

STUFFED CHOCOLATE-PEANUT BUTTER MONKEY BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Spray 12-cup fluted tube pan or 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray; sprinkle flour, then nuts into pan. Melt 2 Tbsp. butter; mix with sugar. Spoon over nuts.
• Separate each can of dough into 10 biscuits; flatten each to 1/4-inch thickness. Spoon peanut butter onto centers of biscuits, adding about 1 tsp. peanut butter to each biscuit. Top each with 1 chocolate square. Gather up edge of each biscuit to enclose filling, then press together to seal. Roll each into ball.
• Melt remaining butter. Empty pudding mix into shallow dish. Dip top of each ball in butter, then in pudding mix. Arrange half the balls, dipped sides up, in single layer in prepared pan. Repeat with remaining balls to make second layer. Top with any remaining pudding mix, then drizzle with any remaining butter.
• Bake 30 min. or until golden brown. Cool bread in pan 1 min. Invert onto serving plate; carefully remove pan. Melt remaining chocolate; drizzle over bread. Top with any nuts remaining in pan; cool slightly.

CHOCOLATE-PEANUT BUTTER CHEESECAKE WITH CHOCOLATE GLAZE

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Wrap bottom and outside of a 9-inch springform pan with a double layer of foil. Coat bottom of pan with cooking spray, and line with parchment. Spray parchment.
• Stir together cookie crumbs, butter, and sugar in a medium bowl. Press mixture firmly into bottom of pan, and bake until firm, about 10 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack.
• Filling: Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Let cool. Beat cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low, and beat in sugar in a slow, steady stream until combined. Beat in salt and vanilla until thoroughly combined and completely smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until combined after each addition (do not overmix).
• Divide cream-cheese filling in half. Stir peanut butter into 1 half; stir melted chocolate into other half. Ladle 1 cup peanut butter filling into center of crust, and tap pan gently on counter to settle. Ladle 1 cup chocolate filling directly on top of peanut butter filling. Repeat, then switching to half-cup amounts, continue to ladle fillings into crust, alternating them until all of each filling is used.
• Bring a kettle of water to a boil. Set cake pan in a large roasting pan, and transfer to oven. Carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of cake pan. Bake until cake is set but still slightly wobbly in center, about 1 hour 20 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack. Refrigerate cake in pan until cold, at least 6 hours, up to overnight. Before unmolding, run a knife around edge of cake. Pour glaze over top of cake, smoothing with an offset spatula and letting it drip down the sides.