Cream Cheese Brownie Recipe
This Cream Cheese Brownie Recipe uses a box brownie mix with dark chocolate chips and adds in a rich cream cheese swirl to make them scrumptious. They're semi-homemade, so you can use a boxed mix and make your own cream cheese topping to speed up the bake time. Ideal for bake sales, parties, and so much more!
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Ingredients
For the brownies:
- 1 box brownie mix with dark chocolate chips I used Ghiradelli
Optional:
- Use your favorite from-scratch brownie recipe
For the cream cheese swirl:
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
Instructions
- Preheat over to 325.
- Mix up a box of Ghirardelli (or other) dark chocolate with chips brownie mix as directed. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl assemble all ingredients for the cream cheese filling and whip until smooth.
- Layer the mixture in a pan sprayed with cooking spray, beginning with a layer of the brownie mix.
- Dot the top with the cream cheese mixture, then another layer of brownie mix.
- Finish with the rest of the cream cheese mixture.
- Use a skewer to swirl the cream cheese layer around.
- Bake the brownies for about 47 minutes, you do not want these to be overdone, or they get very dry.
- Test to see if they are done with a skewer or a toothpick in the middle, you want a few crumbs sticking to the utensil.