Cream-Cheese Brownies

Name: Cream-Cheese Brownies
Yield: Makes 8–10
Ingredients: 125 g unsalted butter; 125 g dark chocolate; 200 g caster sugar; 2 large eggs; 75 g plain flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 200 g cold Philadelphia or similar; pinch of salt

Preparation info

Makes
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

This version adds cream cheese, fridge-cold and sliced, to give an inner layer of almost salty sourness. Just think of cheesecake: rich, sweet, sharp, palate-cleaving. What’s not to like?

Ingredients

125 g dark chocolate
125 g unsalted butter
2 large

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.

Melt the chocolate and butter over medium-to-low heat in a heavy-based saucepan. While you’re waiting for it to melt, idly beat the eggs in a bowl with the sugar and vanilla. Measure the flour into another bowl and add the salt. When the ch