Banana Cream Brownies
🍳 Cook: 40 min🍽️ Makes 32
Ingredients
| 8 oz | 225 g | Dark chocolate, chopped |
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | Butter, cut into small pieces |
| 1 1/4 cup | 300 ml | Granulated sugar |
| 4 | Eggs | |
| 3/4 c plus 1 T | All-purpose flour, divided | |
| pinch | Salt | |
| 1 | Egg yolk | |
| 1/4 cup | 60 ml | Confectioners' sugar |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | Vanilla |
| 1 | Very ripe banana, mashed | |
| 8 oz | 225 g | Cream cheese, room temperature |
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease bottom of a 9×13-inch baking pan with butter or shortening.
- In medium saucepan, bring water to a boil. Remove from heat. Put dark chocolate in heatproof bowl and set it over saucepan. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.
- Use electric mixer with paddle attachment to beat butter and sugar in a bowl on medium-low speed. Mix until light and fluffy (3 minutes).
- Add 3 eggs. Beat to combine. Add in chocolate mixture, 3/4 cup flour and salt. Mix until just combined.
- In food processor, blend cream cheese until smooth and creamy (30 seconds). Add egg yolk, confectioners' sugar, vanilla, remaining tablespoon of flour and egg. Process until smooth (1 minute). Transfer to a bowl and fold in the mashed banana.
- Spread chocolate batter into prepared baking pan. Using a rubber spatula, make three trenches in the batter and fill with banana cream cheese mixture. To create marble effect, run tip of a knife back and forth through the batters.
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until set. Cool completely. Cut into 4 rows by 8 rows to make 32 brownies.