When I saw
Fiona at
London Unattached's post for
Cream Cheese Brownies (which you can read,
here,) I thought they looked and sounded so delicious that I just had to bake them... but with one slight change.
Rather then using pure cream cheese, I decided to bake them with chocolate cream cheese!
Yes, I kept the cheese, while upping the chocolate content!
Although my brownies were less visually stunning then
Fiona's beautiful cakes, they were still completely and utterly scrumptious.
They disappeared
very quickly.
I used the same recipe that
Fiona had used, a
David Lebovitz recipe which you can find
here, but I substituted a tub of chocolate cream cheese. It did need topping up with conventional cream cheese, to complete the cream cheese layer of the brownies.
It's a wonderful recipe and I do hope you'll follow the links both to
Fiona's super blog and
David Lebovitz's recipe.
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| Of course I needed two with my coffee! |
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| Lots of very (un)healthy ingredients |
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| Mixing the scrumptious chocolate cream cheese layer |
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| It's really tempting just to eat it now! |
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| Swirling the cream cheese into the brownie mixture |
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| Out of the oven |
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| It smells gorgeous |
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| Cut it up quickly |
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| Make some coffee while it cools |
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| Yum! |
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| Yum! |
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| YUM! |
I wrote this post a week or so ago. Before I had time to publish it, my son requested a batch of Brownies. He had looked through the wonderful suggestions on my
Anzac post for other baked goods I could make and send him, and thought brownies sounded great.
He loves a crunch in his brownies, so I added some pecan nuts and slightly reduced the quantity of chocolate chips. As the Jubilee is fast approaching and he will be in Afghanistan I added a little Jubilee decoration to the brownies.
I hope it makes him laugh!
I baked the brownies yesterday morning and sent them off in the afternoon with some other goodies, including shortbread from Fortnum and Mason, and some Heston Nuts from Waitrose.
He'll let me know how they survived the journey.
And a
huge thank you for all the suggestions, both of us thought they were super. I have a few baking projects ahead of me over the next few weeks!
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| Flags and crowns for the Jubilee |
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| (Adding Pecan nuts, I'm sure they will be a superb extra) |
groaning at the screen and wishing I had all those ingredients NOW!
ReplyDeleteI think they look just as good if not better than mine!!! all chocolatey. They freeze really well, you can just take them out one at a time and eat them frozen if you have serious cravings, or put them in the microwave for 20 seconds. Enjoy, so glad the recipe worked for you!
ReplyDeleteI must try this chocolate cream cheese and I also love David Lebovitz's brownies and pretty much all his chocolate recipes! Your son is so lucky and I bet he loves receiving your parcels. Hope you keep posting more of what you send over to him :)
ReplyDeleteYum - I've seen recipes for brownies with cream cheese a few times now - if I didn't already have a batch of brownies that we're working through I'd be tempted to try it straight away. Hope the brownies travelled well and I will be praying for your son as he serves overseas - the parcels must be a great treat for him.
ReplyDeletethese look simply delicious with the perfect texture. Yum yum yum indeed! xx
ReplyDeleteLove the sound of these brownies with the cream cheese - hope your son loved them.
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