Marble Brownies With Cocoa Powder

These fudgy marbled cocoa brownies are moist and rich and made with pure bittersweet cocoa and there s a delicious cream cheese filling marbled throughout each brownie.

Marble brownies with cocoa powder.

In a large bowl combine the flour sugar cocoa baking powder salt and nuts. Preheat the oven to 350 f. Transfer batter to baking dish evening it out. I love the taste of homemade fudgy brownies made with pure bittersweet cocoa and this recipe for perfect fudgy cocoa.

Unsweetened cocoa powder i use regular hershey s cocoa powder most of the time vanilla extract. Eggs i use large eggs in all of my baking all purpose flour i use unbleached but that s a matter of preference. I think the key to perfect marbled cheesecake brownies is to reserve a little of the batter to dollop on top of the filling. Into the other half mix in cocoa and or 1 2 c melted chocolate chips.

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees f. Add 1 1 2 cup flour 1 1 4 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder and 1 2 tsp salt and again beat to combine. Then add the chocolate batter and use a knife to marble the two together in the pan. In a medium saucepan over medium low heat melt the 2 sticks butter and the chocolate.

Transfer to a bowl. Whisk together the cocoa powder salt and 1 1 2 cups of the flour in a medium bowl. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean about 25 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the cocoa salt baking powder espresso powder and vanilla.

Melt the butter and chocolate stirring frequently in a medium saucepan over medium heat. To make the brownie batter. Lightly grease a 9 x 13 pan. In a large saucepan melt the butter then stir in the sugar cooking until the mixture is smooth and shiny.

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350 f. Grease a 9 by 9 inch baking dish with the softened butter and set aside. Drop the blondie batter into the pan by heaping spoonfulls leaving some space in between. Preheat the oven to 350.

Butter an 8 inch square baking pan.