When we visited Eric's Dad last month, he gave us a bunch of his amazing jam.  It is seriously some of the best jam I have ever tasted, made from local fruit he picks in his town in Michigan, and from his own garden.  I love it plain or on toast, but it also inspired me to make some delicious desserts, one of which was these brownies.I was in a brownie making mood, and I couldn't help but think the blackberry jam would be amazing swirled into chocolate.  So I made some! I couldn't just stop there though, I wanted these to be over the top delicious so I decided to add a vegan cream cheese element as well and make them cheesecake swirled.  Because why not?  When it comes to brownies, the more decadent the better, right?!  I used one of my brownie recipes with applesauce in the base to keep them nice and fudgy.  They do still contain a little bit of oil, but if you wanted them oil free, you could replace it with nut butter, such as almond butter which is already in another part of this recipe.I just find that the texture is slightly different that way though, so I prefer a little oil in mine.

For the cheesecake, I used a mixture of coconut cream and almond butter to make it nice and rich as well as give it that almond flavor I was going for.  It was heavenly before I even added it to the brownies!  If it seems a little runny befo

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