best cream cheese brownies

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Updated on Sep 18, 2014

This recipe is from Cooks Illustrated (America's Test Kitchen.) The photo is from www.cooksillustrated.com.

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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
  • ------- - for brownie batter ---------------------------
  • 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

  • Step 1
    FOR THE CREAM CHEESE FILLING: Microwave cream cheese until soft, 20 to 30 seconds.
  • Step 2
    Add sour cream, sugar, and flour and whisk to combine. Set aside.
  • Step 3
    Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Step 4
    Make 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.
  • Step 5
    FOR THE BROWNIE BATTER: Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in bowl and set aside.
  • Step 6
    Microwave chocolate and butter in bowl at 50 percent power, stirring occasionally, until melted, 1 to 2 minutes.
  • Step 7
    Whisk sugar, eggs, and vanilla together in medium bowl.
  • Step 8
    Add melted chocolate mixture (do not clean bowl) and whisk until incorporated.
  • Step 9
    Add flour mixture and fold to combine.
  • Step 10
    Transfer 1/2 cup batter to bowl used to melt chocolate.
  • Step 11
    Spread remaining batter in prepared pan.
  • Step 12
    Spread cream cheese filling evenly over batter.
  • Step 13
    Microwave bowl of reserved batter until warm and pourable, 10 to 20 seconds.
  • Step 14
    Using spoon, dollop softened batter over cream cheese filling, 6 to 8 dollops.
  • Step 15
    Using knife, swirl batter through cream cheese filling, making marbled pattern, 10 to 12 strokes, leaving 1/2-inch border around edges.
  • Step 16
    Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out with few moist crumbs attached, 35 to 40 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking.
  • Step 17
    Let cool in pan on wire rack for 1 hour.
  • Step 18
    Using 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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