Saturday Sweets: Cookies 'n' Cream Brownies
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Ingredients
  • 3½ oz unsweetened chocolate, chopped
  • ⅓ cup butter or margarine, cut into pieces
  • ½ cup cream cheese, softened to room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¾ cup flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp fine salt
  • 6 Oreo cookies, chopped into chunks
  • ICING:
  • ¼ cup cream cheese, room temperature
  • ¼ cup butter or margarine, room temperature
  • ½ cups icing sugar, sifted
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 6 Oreo cookies, chopped into chunks
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter and flour a 9" round cake pan, or 9" square, whichever you prefer, knocking out excess flour. Melt chocolate and butter in a small heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat, or in microwave, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until soft. Add sugar and cream until smooth. Beat in vanilla and eggs, adding one at a time and beating well after each addition. Stir in chocolate mixture.
  2. In separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt and add to chocolate mixture, beating just until batter is combined. Stir in chopped cookie chunks. Spread batter evenly in pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until tester comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before icing.
  3. For icing, beat cream cheese with butter. Beat in icing sugar until smooth. Stir in vanilla and half of the cookie chunks. Spread over brownies, sprinkle with remaining cookie chunks and chill for an hour before serving.
Recipe by Hidden Ponies at https://hiddenponies.com/2011/08/saturday-sweets-cookies-n-cream-brownies/