Ingredients:
4 oz Sweet cooking chocolate
5 tb Butter or margarine
3 oz Cream cheese, softened
1 c Sugar
3 Eggs
1/2 c Plus 1 T all-purpose flour
1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1/4 ts Almond extract
1/2 c Chopped nuts
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Melt butter and 3 T butter over low heat; cool. Cream remaining butter with the cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually add 1/4 c sugar, creaming until light. Add 1 egg, 1 T flour and 1/2 ts vanilla; mix until smooth and then set aside. Beat remaining eggs until fluffy and lemon colored. Gradually add remaining sugar, beating until thick. Fold in remaining flour and the baking powder and salt. Blend in chocolate mixture. Then add almond extract, remaining vanilla and the nuts. Measure 1 cup batter and reserve. Spread remainder in 9″ square pan. Pour cheese mixture over top. Drop reserved chocolate batter by tablespoonfuls over top. Swirl mixtures together with spatula to marbleize. Bake 35-40 minutes. Cool in pan on cake rack. Then cut in 2 14″ squares.
Filed under Brownies by on Mar 13th, 2010. Comment. 
Ingredients:
1 c Cornmeal
1 c Flour
1 1/2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
4 Eggs
1 c Chopped nuts
2 c Sugar
1/2 c Plus 3 tbsp butter
3 Squares unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place cornmeal in a bowl. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl with cornmeal and mix the ingredients. To the beaten eggs add the sugar, melted butter, melted chocolate ingredients to the egg mixture. Beat well. Mix chopped nuts and pour into two greased and floured 8-inch square pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. Cool before cutting into squares. These are better served hot.
Filed under Brownies by on Mar 12th, 2010. Comment.
Ingredients:
4 Egg whites
1/3 c Oil
1/4 c Nonfat yogurt
1 ts Vanilla
1 1/3 c Sugar
1/2 c Cocoa powder
1 1/4 c Flour
1/4 ts Salt
Topping:
1 tb Confectioners sugar
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Oil bottom of 9-inch square pan. Place egg whites in a large bowl. Beat until slightly frothy. Add oil, yogurt and vanilla, mix well. Add sugar and cocoa, mix well. Add flour and salt. Mix until blended. Pour into pan. Bake at 360 degrees for 26-28 minutes. Avoid over baking. Dust with confectioners sugar.
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Ingredients:
1 c Flour
1/4 ts Baking powder
1/2 c Butter
1 c Sugar
2 Eggs
3/4 c Chocolate syrup
3/4 c Chopped pecans
1 ts Vanilla
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour and soda together. Cream butter. Add sugar, gradually beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs (one at a time) beating well after each addition. Add dry ingredients alternately with syrup. Add nuts and vanilla. Beat until well blended. Spoon into a 9 inch square pan. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until done. Recipe may be doubled for a 9 x 13 pan.
Filed under Brownies by on Mar 7th, 2010. Comment.
Ingredients:
6 oz Semisweet chocolate; chopped
3 oz Unsweetened chocolate; chopped
2 Cream cheese; softened
2 c Sugar
4 Eggs
1 tb Vanilla extract
1 c Butter; softened
1 c Flour
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 c Raspberry jam
Directions:
In heatproof bowl set over hot (not boiling) water, melt semisweet with unsweetened chocolate. Remove from heat; stir until smooth. Let cool to lukewarm. In large bowl, beat cream cheese with 1/3 cup of the sugar until smooth. Beat in 1 of the eggs and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla until well combined. Set aside. In separate large bowl, beat butter with remaining sugar until smooth. Beat in remaining eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in remaining vanilla, then chocolate, mixing well. Mix in flour and salt just until combined.
Line a 13 x 9 inch cake pan with foil, leaving overhand for “handles”.
Reserve 1 cup of the chocolate batter. Spread remaining chocolate batter in pan. Spread with cream cheese mixture. Spoon reserved chocolate batter in dollops over top.
Spoon jam in smaller dollops among chocolate dollops. With knife, zigzag through layers for marble effect.
Bake in 350 degrees F oven for 35 minutes or until tester inserted 2 inches from center comes out slightly moist. Let cool on rack. Using foil handles, lift onto cutting board; cut into squares.
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