Brownies With Cream Cheese Swirl

Recipe Ingredients

		For Swirl
3 oz	85g	Cream cheese - room temperature
2 tablespoons	30ml	Unsalted butter - (1/4 stick) - room temperature
1/4 cup	49g / 1.7oz	Sugar
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Egg (large)
1 tablespoon	15ml	All-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Vanilla extract
		For Brownies
6 oz	170g	Sweet baking chocolate - chopped
		= (such as Baker's German's Sweet
		Chocolate)
3 tablespoons	45ml	Unsalted butter - room temperature
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Sugar
2 cups	396g / 13oz	Eggs (large)
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	All-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
2 teaspoons	10ml	Vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Almond extract
1 cup	110g / 3.9oz	Semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup	36g / 1.3oz	Chopped walnuts

Recipe Instructions

Make Swirl: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter 8-inch square nonstick baking pan. Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter in medium bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat until well blended. Beat in egg. Mix in flour and vanilla. Set mixture aside.

Make Brownies: Stir baking chocolate and butter in heavy small saucepan over low heat until smooth. Cool slightly. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs in large bowl until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Mix in flour, baking powder and salt. Mix in chocolate mixture and extracts. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Spread half of chocolate batter (about 1 1/4 cups) in prepared pan. Using rubber spatula, spread cream cheese mixture over chocolate batter. Spoon remaining chocolate batter over top of cream cheese mixture. Using tip of knife, gently swirl through batter, forming marble design. Bake brownies until tester inserted into center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 30 minutes. Cool brownies in pan on rack. Cut into squares.

This recipe yields 16.

Source:
Bon Appetit, July 1998

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