Chewy chocolate brownies

Name: Chewy chocolate brownies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes: approx 12
Ingredients: 200 g butter; 100 g cocoa powder; 4 eggs, beaten; good pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; 200 g full fat cream cheese; 100 g self raising flour; 50 g dark chocolate, chopped into small chunks; 50 g white chocolate, chopped into small chunks; icing sugar, for dusting; icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation info

Makes: approx
12

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

An American friend of mine once told me that she put cream cheese in her brownies. I never had her actual recipe so it was a bit of trial and error on my part. I could not get them to work until I used cocoa instead of chocolate – then they were a dream. Serve cold or warmed up with ice cream (a favourite at our family celebrations!).

Ingredients

200 g butter
400 g sugar
100 g

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Line the roasting tin with baking parchment.
Put the butter, sugar and cocoa into the saucepan and melt together.
Remove from the heat and add the salt, eggs, vanilla essence and cream cheese. Beat together well. Add the flour and chopped chocolate and gently mix together.
Turn into the lined tin and