Marble Cream Cheese Brownies

Baked 2 batches of this marble cheese brownie on Thu, the 1st batch was for my 2 secondary school/class mates and the 2nd one was for my family.  Recipe was adapted from AG's Joy of Making Cookies.

Ingredient - Chocolate Batter
(A)
150g chocolate
80g butter

(B)
120 g sugar
pinch of salt
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence

(C)
120g flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
80g chopped walnuts

Cream chesse batter
(A)
200g cream cheese (used 250g)
40g butter (skipped this)
75g sugar

(B)
2 eggs
2 tbsps milk

(C)
30g corn flour

1. Grease and line a 31 x 22cm Swiss roll pan with greaseproof paper and grease the paper
2. Chocolate batter: melt (A) over simmering water and let it cool.
3. Add in (B) and mix till well blended.  Then add in (C).  Mix till well combined.  Pour 2/3 of the batter into the pan
4. Cream cheese batter: cram (A) til light, then add in (B) and cream till smooth.  Lastly add in (C) and mix till well incorporated.  Pour it into the chocolate batter
5. Spoon the remaining chocolate batter onto the plain batter.  Swifl the mixture to marble
6. Place it at the bottom rack of the oven.  Bake at 180C for 35 - 40 minutes
7. Cut it into bars when cool.

This marble cheese brownies were very delicious, I ate 3 big pieces right after it was cool off, whereas picky eater Y ate 1 and baby J ate 2 pieces!  Little girl gets to eat it only during supper :)

No, they r not meat loaf (my dad said they look like one though), these r marble cheese brownies for my 2 mates, hope they enjoy the cake just like the kids

Brownies

I am crazy with chocolate lately, as little girl loves chocolate, I always like to see her devouring it happily & keep asking for more, especially the moist chocolate cake baked a week ago.

Saw Happy Home Baking's lovely brownies, can't wait to bake one for little girl!

Ingredients

150g semisweet chocolate, chopped

120ml sunflower oil (I used corn oil)

215g light brown sugar (I cut down further to 180g)

2 eggs

5ml vanilla essence

65g self-raising flour (I used 65g all purpose flour + 1 tsp baking powder)

4 tbsps cocoa powder (unsweetened)

4 tbsps milk chocolate chips

75g chopped walnuts (I omitted this too)

1. Preheat oven to 180C. Lightly grease/line a shallow 19cm/7.5 inch square pan
2. Melt chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water
3. With a electric mixer, beat together oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence in a mixing bowl
4. Stir in the melted chocolate then beat well until evenly mixed
5. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the batter. With a spatula, fold thoroughly until all the flour mixture incorporates into the batter
6. Stir in walnuts and chocolate chips. Mix well
7. Pour the mixture into the prepared square tin. Spread the mixture evenly to the edges. (The mixture is rather sticky and gooey)
8. Bake for about 30 - 35 mins until the top is firm and crusty. Cool in pan before cutting into squares

Usually when I baked cakes, little girl would give me a hand in the kitchen, either reading me the measurement of ingredients, sifting the flour, mixing the batter, etc As for this time, after step 4 above, I passed her a very important job - clean the chocolate bowl, well, not washing it but licking it, hehehe, she didn't disappoint me at all, the bowl was basically shine after her careful 'cleaning' process, ;p

I had a piece after cooling & cutting, the texture was a crusty at the outer layer & chewy at the center, and again, love the chocolate, but was rather too sweet to my liking. The next morning, gave 2 pieces to little girl as breakfast, she told me she dislike it (she ate a piece only), though is so chocolatie, :( I ate 2 pieces in the morning, the texture had changed, the outer layer became very crusty & crumbly and the center still remain moist, yum, but too sweet :( Everyone who ate this brownies complained that it was too sweet, next time must cut the sugar down to 150g.