Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownies

Desserts, Recipe

Hanna Goldscheitter

Butler County Dairy Princess

Ingredients

  •  1 6-oz. pkg. (1 cup) semisweet chocolate  
  • 2 TBSP BUTTER
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 3-oz. pkg. CREAM CHEESE, softened
  • 1 beaten egg.   

Directions

Preheat oven to 350o. Grease and lightly flour an 8x8x2-inch baking pan. Melt chocolate and BUTTER; cool. Stir together flour, baking powder, and ¼ tsp. salt. In a mixer bowl, beat 2 eggs and 1 tsp. of the vanilla; gradually add ¾ cup of the sugar. Continue beating eggs till thick and lemon colored. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture; beat till well combined. Stir in chocolate mixture; stir in nuts. Beat CHEESE and remaining ¼ cup sugar till fluffy. Stir in remaining egg and ½ tsp. vanilla. Spread half of the chocolate mixture in pan. Pour CHEESE mixture over; top with remaining chocolate mixture. Swirl layers to marble, if desired. Bake in 350o oven about 45 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Makes 16.