They were delicious. The bigger ones turned out more fluffy than chewy, but the spices were perfect. My sister pressed chocolate chips into the hot-from-the-oven ones, and they melted into them nicely. Next time, I'm definitely adding a handful.
I've been craving cream cheese brownies for a while now; my mom used to make the ones from a recipe of a Betty Crocker brownie box or something and they were one of my favorite desserts ever. I adapted a wonderful, fudgy brownie recipe from RecipeZaar for the base, but you can use whatever brownie recipe you'd like.
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Cream Cheese Brownies
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup coffee
3/4 cup soymilk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Cream Cheese Topping
8 oz vegan cream cheese
2 1/2 - 3 T Earth Balance
1/3 cup + 2 T sugar
3 T flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat your oven to 325F and grease or butter a 13x9 baking pan.
Sift together (or just mix if you're lazy like me) the flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the coffee, soy milk, and oil. Add the wet to the dry and mix, then stir in the chocolate chips. Pour batter (it won't be very thick) into the prepared pan. Prepare the cream cheese topping by whipping all the ingredients together in a small bowl. Spread the topping over the batter and swirl with a knife. Bake for about 40-50 minutes (check very often, my oven was being sketchy and I'm not sure how long it will take on a different one). Test with a toothpick and let cool completely before slicing.
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And here's what I did today!
I've been meaning to try out this recipe that was linked in a biscuit topic on the PPK. I didn't make them as big as the recipe told me to and I also forgot to set the timer, but luckily I caught them before they got too brown and they turned out wonderfully fluffy and delicious.
Then I used some tempeh that was lying around my fridge to make the Vegan With A Vengeance tempeh sausage crumbles.
I'm not a fan of fennel seed, so I subbed in some thyme leaves and cut down the red pepper flakes. I made the VWAV Sausage and White Bean Gravy with them--
Then I took a biscuit..
.. and smothered it in the gravy.
And that was my dinner!
Love,
Jillian Renee
8 comments:
Oh my. The gravy.
I'm so gonna try the cream cheese brownie recipe, too. Although I don't think I've ever made brownies. (Seriously)
I haven't had a cream cheese brownie in god-knows-how long. Awesome.
Diz-am those brownies look incredible!
I'm making the cream cheese brownies right now. Too much batter for my Texas-shaped cake pan, so they are currently overflowing, but I'll post a picture of the results on my blog. (http://isyourdogfixed.tumbler.com)
Just so you know, you forgot to say to put the cocoa powder in. I have the brownies in the oven right now and just realized I never put it in, which explains why they are light tan instead of dark brown. I'm sure they'll be good nontheless!
God those brownies look amazing! Your biscuits look good, too - I've never tried an American biscuit, just the British kind, but I should get around to doing that.
just made these, but noticed that you forgot a couple of steps in the recipe:
no cocoa powder and no chocolate chips were included in the instructions, I almost forgot the powder and did forget the chips...please edit
Seriously, these vegan cream cheese brownies are among the tastiest goodies I've ever cooked! Thanks for sharing the recipe. They brightened up our snowy weekend. :)
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