Enjoy these delicious cheese filled chocolate brownies - perfect dessert to impress your guests.
Cream Cheese Brownies from Scratch
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 3 hr 15 min
- Servings 48
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Filling
- 2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 large egg
Brownies
- 1 cup butter or margarine
- 4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour*
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with shortening.
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Step2In medium bowl, beat all filling ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth; set aside.
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Step3In 1-quart saucepan, melt butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring frequently. Remove from heat; cool 5 minutes.
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Step4In large bowl, beat chocolate mixture, sugar, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed 1 minute, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat in flour and salt on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat on medium speed 1 minute. Stir in nuts. Spread 1 3/4 cups of the batter in pan. Spread filling over batter. Drop remaining batter in mounds randomly over filling; carefully spread to cover cream cheese layer.
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Step5Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack, about 2 hours. For brownies, cut into 8 rows by 6 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.
Nutrition
160
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Brownie
- Calories
- 160
- Calories from Fat
- 100
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 16%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 25%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 45mg
- 14%
- Sodium
- 85mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 50mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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