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Cream Cheese Brownies with Chocolate Frosting.
They are good, man.
We are talking triple layers of heavenly bliss, here!
Rich
Chocolaty
…melt in your mouth brownie deliciousness….
….dreamy layer of cream cheese baked right in…
…smooth and creamy frosting spread over the top….
A triple layer delight!
Sounds good, yes?
They are!
Can’t wait until you
make them
taste them
love them
marry them
ok…maybe that’s going too far.
divorce them
please…don’t be so hasty.
add them
to your tried and true recipe collection extraordinaire…
sure!
Make that Triple Sure.
1. To make the brownie batter, beat the butter, sugar and eggs until creamed together nicely. Should take about 3-4 minutes.
2. In a separate bowl combine the flour, cocoa and dash of salt.
3. Pour the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture and mix until all is well combined.
3. Spray an 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray. Spread about 2/3 of your Brownie Batter into the pan.
4. Let’s make the Cream Cheese Batter! Beat your cream cheese until nice and smooth. Add the other ingredients and beat for about 3 minutes.
5. Pour it right on top of your Brownie Batter.
6. Spread it all around.
7. Take the rest of your Brownie Batter and spoon it onto your Cream Cheese Batter.
8. Spread the top layer of Brownie Batter around just a bit.
You don’t want to mix the two batters up too much. They just need to be marbled a bit.
If you stick your knife strait up into the air you can make pretty patterns like this. But seriously…it doesn’t matter much. They just need to be marbled together.
9. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes clean out of the center.
10. Remove from the oven and cool completely.
11. To make the frosting melt your butter in a glass measuring cup.
Pour the cocoa into the melted butter and stir well to make a thick paste.
12. Pour just 2 T of the milk into the chocolate paste and stir until smooth.
13. In a large mixing bowl combine 3 C powdered sugar, the chocolate paste, vanilla and 2 more T milk. Beat the frosting. As it begins to come together add more milk until it is smooth and glossy. If it’s too runny add more powdered sugar and beat well.
14. Spread the frosting over the top of your cooled brownies.
Enjoy!
Cream Cheese Brownies with Chocolate Frosting
Ingredients
BROWNIE BATTER:
1 C butter, softened
2 C sugar
4 eggs
8 T cocoa powder
1 1/2 C flour
dash salt
CREAM CHEESE BATTER:
1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
1/2 C sugar
1 egg
1 t vanilla
dash salt
FROSTING:
1/4 C butter
1/2 C cocoa
4-6 T milk
1 1/2 t vanilla
3-4 C powdered sugar
Instructions
1. To make the brownie batter, beat the butter, sugar and eggs until creamed together nicely. Should take about 3-4 minutes.
2. In a separate bowl combine the flour, cocoa and dash of salt.
3. Pour the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture and mix until all is well combined.
4. Spray an 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray. Spread about 2/3 of your Brownie Batter into the pan.
5. Let's make the Cream Cheese Batter! Beat your cream cheese until nice and smooth. Add the other ingredients and beat for about 3 minutes.
5. Pour it right on top of your Brownie Batter.
6. Spread it all around.
7. Take the rest of your Brownie Batter and spoon it onto your Cream Cheese Batter.
8. Spread the top layer of Brownie Batter around just a bit. You don't want to mix the two batters up too much. They just need to be marbled a bit. If you stick your knife strait up into the air you can make pretty patterns like this. But seriously...it doesn't matter much. They just need to be marbled together.
9. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes clean out of the center.
10. Remove from the oven and cool completely.
11. To make the frosting melt your butter in a glass measuring cup.
Pour the cocoa into the melted butter and stir well to make a thick paste.
12. Pour just 2 T of the milk into the chocolate paste and stir until smooth.
13. In a large mixing bowl combine 3 C powdered sugar, the chocolate paste, vanilla and 2 more T milk. Beat the frosting. As it begins to come together add more milk until it is smooth and glossy. If it's too runny add more powdered sugar and beat well.
14. Spread the frosting over the top of your cooled brownies.
https://jamiecooksitup.net/2011/02/cream-cheese-brownies-with-chocolate-frosting/Recipe from www.jamiecooksitup.net
Brownie recipe from my mother in law, Jill Eskelson
Frosting recipe from The Lion House
Frosting recipe from The Lion House
These look delicious. I may just have to make some for my gardening get together tomorrow!
Goodness those look deadly Jamie. I love brownies any way I can get them.
Oh those looke heavenly! Aren't brownies such a wonderful indulgence?!! Hey, I'm new at this blog stuff and I was trying to link your olive garden dressing and salad recipe to my site where I had posted olive garden fettucine alfredo and I wanted my viewers to link to your site for the salad part, I saw the add link, but when I typed out your blog site and clicked on it to try it, it wouldn't bring me to your page? Any suggestions? Still trying to figure this stuff out, but I wanted to promote your blog to my friends, I love your blog!
Well these are pretty fantastic looking brownies. Going to head to the kitchen and see if I can't make some of these. Thanks so much for the recipe.
Jamie, YUM! you are amazing! 🙂
I love your blog! Everything I have made is wonderful. I just put these in the oven and for some reason my cheesecake mixture was runnier than it looks like yours was. Hopefully it will turn out, is their a reason it would be runny? Thanks!
Hi Lindsay,
I think your brownies will turn out great. I've had that happen to the cream cheese layer before, too. Most often when my cream cheese isn't soft enough. Hope you love them!
~Jamie
Tammy,
You need to go to the page you are hoping to link to. Let the cursor land on the title, right click and then select Copy Link Location. Then paste it where you want it to appear. Hope this helps! Thanks for sharing my blog with your readers. Have a great day!
~Jamie
Ok, those brownies look absolutely DEE-lish! I just love the idea of frosting the cream cheese brownies with that yummy looking frosting! – a serious, serious treat!
I look forward to making these brownies soon! – I will think of you with great gratitude Jaime for passing on this recipe when I take my first bite of one of these brownies. 🙂
Jamie – I'm fer-sher gonna try this cause I'm a brownieaholic. BUT I just wanted to say how much fun I've had stalking your blog! You are so darling – your blog posts make me smile. Thank you for making me happy with nummyness in my tummy & with your fun blog posts! 🙂 ~Cari