Nutella Cream Cheese Chocolate Chunk Brownies

Our wedding is nine days away. If you're wondering what my "wedding diet" has consisted of, these brownies are it. My soon-to-be husband is one lucky fella.

We still have some leftover homemade cream cheese in our fridge, so I decided to use up some of it in a revamped version of my Nutella Brownies. The end result was a fudgy, decadent brownie that is dangerous to have in the house nine days before your wedding. Just F.Y.I.

Nutella Cream Cheese Chocolate Chunk Brownies
Yields: 9 servings
Brownies:
-1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick), softened, plus extra for greasing

-1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks, plus extra for sprinkling on top of brownies
-1/4 cup Nutella
-1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
-Pinch of salt
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-2 eggs
-1 cup all-purpose flour
-1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

Cream Cheese Topping:

-8 ounces (or 1 cup) cream cheese

-1/3 cup granulated sugar

-1 egg

-1/2 teaspoon vanilla

-Pinch of salt

Directions:

Brownies:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8 baking pan with butter.
2.) Place the butter and chocolate chunks in a glass bowl over a pot of simmering water; stir until mostly melted. Add Nutella, and stir until smooth. Remove from heat, and let cool slightly.
3.) In a medium bowl, combine sugar, salt, and vanilla extract. Add chocolate and Nutella mixture and stir.

4.) Add the eggs to the bowl, one at a time, stirring well until blended.

5.) Add the flour and cocoa to the brownie batter and beat until smooth.
6.) Pour the batter into the greased cake pan.

Cream Cheese Topping:

1.) Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until it has a whipped consistency.

2.) Add sugar and mix; then, add vanilla, egg, and salt, and mix until well-blended.

3.) Spoon cheese mixture over brownie batter in dollops, leaving some brownie showing in-between. Gently swirl through batter several times with a butter knife to create a marbled effect. Sprinkle several chocolate chunks over the top of the batter.

4.) Bake for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.

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I loved how the cream cheese helped to prevent these brownies from becoming too sweet, while adding to their richness and deliciousness.

Oh, and you may have some cream cheese mixture leftover, but that's never an issue, right? Right. 

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