Cream-Cheese Brownies
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Everyday Food, May 2007
- Yield Makes 16 squares
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Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for pan
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room-temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush a 9-inch square baking pan with butter. Line bottom and two sides with a strip of parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on the two sides. Butter paper, and set pan aside. In a small bowl, whisk 1 cup flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
- Place 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter and chocolate in a large heat-proof bowl set over (not in) a saucepan of gently simmering water. Heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes; remove bowl from pan. Add 1 1/4 cups sugar; mix to combine. Add 3 eggs, and mix to combine. Add flour and cocoa mixture; mix just until moistened (do not overmix).
- Prepare cream-cheese mixture: Whisk cream cheese with 2 tablespoons room-temperature butter. Whisk in 1/4 cup sugar, 1 egg, and 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour. Alternately spoon chocolate batter and cream-cheese mixture into pan; with the tip of a paring knife, swirl to marble.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in pan for 30 minutes. Using paper overhang, lift brownies out of pan; transfer to a rack to cool completely (still on paper). On a cutting board, using a dampened serrated knife, cut into 16 squares.
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Really like this one ;-) Moist and rich.
This recipe is amazing..before I start a new recipe, I always take time to read it well. Many of you have complain about it but don't see how hard it was to follow that recipe!! Those brownies are delicious, thanks Martha as always :)
WOW!!! I made this today to celebrate "Children day" ...were totally a successs!!!!
thank you for this delicious variety of brownies...!!! really loved them!
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This recipe will be my new cheese cake alternative!! thank you martha :) These were also a hit last time I made them, since my daughter refuses to mix cheese with chocolate- http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/recipes/desserts-a-goodies-/ebon...
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This receipe was a success for me, I made this last night and my guests LOVED them!
I just mixed all the ingredients together and I had a bowl of cocoa and flour at the end and didnt know waht to do with it......I made it and all that for nothing proof read and fix your recipe!!!!
This recipe is not written well, when you mix the cocoa with the flour mixture and then in number two they tell you to put in 1 cup of flour, this cocoa mixture is the mixture you need to put in, it is more than a cup but it works out fine. It was really moist and tasty but more like a cross between a bar cookie and a cake than a brownie. I
I cannot see the reciepes any more specially for the brownies...Please help
wow... so good and moist!!!
End of Step 2 should read: "Add 1 cup of the FLOUR-COCOA MIXTURE, mix until mioistened." I followed the recipe and ended up with a bowl of flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt STILL set aside (from step 1) since Step 2 asked for "1 cup all-purpose flour". And I was left with a mixed chocolate batter without baking powder and salt.
Proofreading needed indeed. End of Step 1 should read: "In a small bowl, whisk 1 CUP of flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; set aside." Without specifying 1 cup, I added all of the flour (1 cup plus 2 tbsp) to my cocoa not knowing the 2 tbsp is intended for the cream cheese portion of the batter.
This recipe needs proofreading. Step 3 describes how to put the two batters in the pan. Step 4 says to transfer the batter to the prepared pan. Huh? It doesn't seem feasible that two pans are involved.