Cream Cheese Brownies from Scratch

Submitted by susanehahn

"Brownies"

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 24 squares
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 3 tablespoons water
• 3⁄4 cup melted butter
• 1 2⁄3 cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1⁄3 cups flour
• 3⁄4 baking cocoa
• 2 (8 ounce) packages of softened cream cheese
• 7 tablespoons sugar
• 3⁄4 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs

directions

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. grease 9x13' pan.
3. blend the first 6 ingredients well.
4. add next 3 ingredients (baking powder, flour and baking cocoa.
5. Spread 2/3 of the brownie batter in the bottom of the greased pan.
6. mix together ingredients for cream cheese portion (last four ingredients - cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and 2 eggs).
7. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly across top of brownie mixture already in pan.
8. drop dollops of remaining brownie mixture the size of golf balls across the top of the cream cheese mixture.
9. drag a knife through the dollops to create marbling effect.
10. bake for about 40 minutes until knife comes out clean.
11. let cool before cutting.

Reviews

[Debi G.]

The brownies would be perfect if the time was cut by 5-10 minutes. Admittedly, this was my first time making these brownies. I usually stick to "plain ol'" brownies with nuts; wanted to try something different. These brownies are good not great because I followed the directions and left them in for 40 minutes; brownies were dry. I will definitely bake them again but will pull them at 30 and maybe let them sit inside the oven for 5 additional minutes. 40 minutes is too long.