Cream Cheese Brownies

Yes, I declare myself a huge fan of brownies! But not any type, only those that are super moist, fudgy, sweet, and will make you more and more addicted as you take a bite after another.

For a while now, I wanted to try and bake my own cream cheese brownies, just to give it a try and see if it  really was worth becoming addicted to them too. And thank god I decided to go for it! These brownies totally ROCK!

Searching for the perfect recipe I came across these by Martha Stewart.
I modified it just a little bit, and they turned out fantastic! They really were a huge hit in a dinner with friends.

So once again, thank you Martha for coming up with such a great brownie recipe!

Recipe (adapted from Martha Stewart)

Ingredients:
140 grs butter (113 grs for the brownie and 28 grs for the cream cheese mix)
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups caster sugar 
226 grs baking chocolate
113 grs cream cheese
3 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (one for the brownie batter and the other for the cream cheese mix)

1 - Preheat the oven at 180ºC. In a bowl whisk flour (just the 1 cup), baking soda, salt and cocoa. Set aside.
2 - Melt chocolate with butter in a heat proof bowl. Once it's melted add 1 1/4 cups of sugar, mix, then add one egg at a time and a tsp of vanilla and mix until well incorporated. Finally add the dry ingredients, but be careful not to overmix!
3 - For the cream cheese batter, whisk the cream cheese with 2 tablespoons of butter. Add 1/4 cup of sugar, egg yolk, tsp of vanilla and 2 tablespoons of flour.
Alternately spoon the chocolate mix and the cream cheese into a pan. With the tip of a knife swirl to marble.
4 - Bake for 50 - 60 minutes aproximately.

Et voilà! Enjoy!