Cream Cheese Brownies

Biting into a moist, rich and grue-y brownie is such a comforting thing. There are days I simply need brownies to shoo away stress of housework!

These rich and moist cream cheese brownies did just that for me... I only made half the recipe and immediately regretted it as it was demolished in no time. The brownie layer was really good, though I thought there was too much cream cheese. 

The next time I do this, I'll halve the cream cheese so that I have more of a chocolate-y later. It would also be better to bake this in a smaller tray so that I'll have a thicker brownie to bite into. 

Cream Cheese Brownies (9 inch square tray)
Recipe by Nigella from here

Ingredients

 125 g dark chocolate

• 125 g unsalted butter
• 2 large eggs
• 200 g caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 75 g plain flour
• pinch of salt
• 200 g cold Philadelphia cream cheese

Method

•  Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
• Melt the chocolate and butter over low heat in a heavy based pan.
• Beat the eggs with sugar and vanilla.
• Measure the flour into another bowl and add salt.
• When the chocolate has all but completely melted, take the pan off the heat – the residual heat in the mixture will finish it off.
• Leave for a bit to cool slightly before beating in the eggs and sugar.
• Finally add the flour, and beat till smooth.
• Pour half the mixture into the greased 9 inch square tin, slice the Philly as thinly as you can and put it on the mixture in the tin, pour the remaining mixture over the top.
• Smooth the mix so that all the cream cheese is covered.
• Bake for about 20 minutes – the top should be slightly paled and dry, but a skewer should reveal a slightly sticky centre. Cool for about 10 minutes before cutting into little squares.

Note: If I were to make this again, I would bake this in a 8 inch square tray (increase baking time by about extra 5 minutes) with half the amount of cream cheese as I prefer a thicker brownie with more chocolate part than cream cheese. 

This is for Cook Like A Star hosted by Joyce of Kitchen Flavours, Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids and Mich of Piece of Cake. 

This post is for Bake Along #58, an event organised by Joyce from Kitchen Flavours, Lena from Frozen Wings and Zoe from Bake For Happy Kids.