best cream cheese brownies
This recipe is from Cooks Illustrated (America's Test Kitchen.) The photo is from www.cooksillustrated.com.
prep time
35 Min
cook time
35 Min
method
Bake
yield
Yield: 16 two inch brownies
Ingredients
- 4 ounces cream cheese, cut into 8 pieces
- 1/2 cup cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
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- 2/3 cup (3 1/3 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped fine
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
How To Make best cream cheese brownies
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Step 1FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FILLING: Microwave cream cheese until soft, 20 to 30 seconds.
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Step 2Add sour cream, sugar, and flour and whisk to combine. Set aside.
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Step 3Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees.
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Step 4Make foil sling for 8-inch square baking pan by folding 2 long sheets of aluminum foil so each is 8 inches wide. Lay sheets of foil in pan perpendicular to each other, with extra foil hanging over edges of pan. Push foil into corners and up sides of pan, smoothing foil flush to pan. Grease foil.
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Step 5FOR THE BROWNIE BATTER: Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in bowl and set aside.
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Step 6Microwave chocolate and butter in bowl at 50 percent power, stirring occasionally, until melted, 1 to 2 minutes.
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Step 7Whisk sugar, eggs, and vanilla together in medium bowl.
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Step 8Add melted chocolate mixture (do not clean bowl) and whisk until incorporated.
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Step 9Add flour mixture and fold to combine.
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Step 10Transfer 1/2 cup batter to bowl used to melt chocolate.
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Step 11Spread remaining batter in prepared pan.
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Step 12Spread cream cheese filling evenly over batter.
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Step 13Microwave bowl of reserved batter until warm and pourable, 10 to 20 seconds.
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Step 14Using spoon, dollop softened batter over cream cheese filling, 6 to 8 dollops.
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Step 15Using knife, swirl batter through cream cheese filling, making marbled pattern, 10 to 12 strokes, leaving 1/2-inch border around edges.
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Step 16Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out with few moist crumbs attached, 35 to 40 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking.
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Step 17Let cool in pan on wire rack for 1 hour.
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Step 18Using foil overhang, lift brownies out of pan. Return brownies to wire rack and let cool completely, about 1 hour. Cut into 2-inch squares and serve.
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