Chocolate brownies for Easter!

The team at Food Obsession wishes everyone a very Happy Easter! We hope that you have had a good long weekend and a well-deserved break with the company of all your loved ones (surrounded by food of course!).

It has been a chocolate-filled week for me (chocolate Easter eggs, chocolate hot cross buns etc.), and to make matters worse, I've had this craving for chocolate brownies for awhile now. So, when I found this recipe, I just had to make it!

Chocolate Orange Cheesecake Brownie Squares

What do you think? Nothing better than some homemade brownies, yes? Make some and have them a bit warm with some ice cream, maybe?

Recipe (adapted from sortedfood.com) 
Chocolate base:
140g butter
200g dark chocolate 
225g caster sugar (I used a lot less than this!)
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs 
60g plain flour 
60g cocoa 

Orange cream cheese filling 
75g cream cheese
50g caster sugar (once again, I didn't use as much sugar) 
1 egg
75g plain flour
zest of 1 orange

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C and line a rectangular baking tin with greaseproof paper.
2. Melt butter, chocolate and sugar in a microwave, stirring every 30 seconds or so.
3. Crack in the eggs and vanilla and mix until smooth and glossy.
4. Add the flour and cocoa into the chocolate mix and beat well.
5. Pour into the lined baking tin. 
6. Beat the sugar and vanilla into the cream cheese, then beat in the egg, flour and zest of the orange to create the cream cheese filling.
7. Spoon the cream cheese mix into the brownie in blobs and use a knife to move the mixture around, creating a marbled effect.
8. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes and allow to cool fully in the tin before cutting into square pieces to serve. 

A big thank you to the guys at Sorted Food for coming up with this recipe! The only thing I might do differently next time is reduce the flour content for the cream cheese filling. Other than that, it would have been a perfect brownie.

This has definitely satisfied my brownie craving, even though it means that I will need to find a way to burn away all these calories. Meh, maybe another day!