Brownies with Cream Cheese frosting
If you're looking for chocolatey addition to your dessert table, you have to try these melt-in-your-mouth brownies with cream cheese frosting! Ready in less than an hour, these moist, gooey brownies are baked to perfection and then topped with a creamy, yet not overly sweet, cream cheese frosting.
- Prep time
- 25 min
- Cook time
- 25 min
- Yield
- 9 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 150 g Dark Chocolate (use high quality chocolate eg. Callebaut)
- 150 g Unsalted butter
- 3 Eggs (room temperature)
- 150 g Granulated sugar
- 150 g Brown sugar
- 30 g Cocoa powder (unsweetened Dutch processed)
- 75 g All purpose
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 300 g Cream cheese (eg. full fat (33%+) Philadephia)
- 100 g Mascarpone (full fat (41%+))
- 50 g Powdered sugar (sifted)
Instructions
- 1
Make the brownies
- 2
Pre-heat oven to 175 C / 347 F (no fan).
- 3
Take a 7 inch /18 cm square brownie pan, brush the inside of the cake pan with a tiny bit of oil then use parchment paper on the bottom as well as on the side. Set it aside.
- 4
Melt butter and chocolate in a bowl over simmering water over low-medium heat.
- 5
In another bowl whip together the eggs with sugar with the help of an Electric hand mixer until pale, for about 5-7 minutes.
- 6
Pour the melted butter and chocolate mixture into the egg-sugar mixture, and combine with a Rubber spatula. Do not use a mixer at this point.
- 7
Sift in flour, salt, and cocoa powder, and fold the mixture together. Do not overmix.
- 8
Pour brownie batter into the prepared 7 inch /18 cm square brownie pan.
- 9
Smooth the top with an offset spatula and bake for 25-30 minutes. The brownie is ready when the edge looks baked and the middle looks slightly gooey but not raw. Do not over-bake! The brownie will further set as it cools.
- 10
Let the brownie cool in the 7 inch /18 cm square brownie pan before frosting.
- 11
Cream cheese frosting
- 12
Whip all the ingredients up with an electric hand mixer. When the frosting reaches a fluffy, pipable consistency, stop right there and do not overmix. If you continue beating the frosting, it will separate and gets runny.
- 13
Once brownies cooled, apply frosting on top and decorate with chocolate shaves (optional).
- 14
Store refrigerated for 2-3 days.