The trifecta: Cheese, chocolate and liquor
Because caffeine is good for you…
Coffee and Cream Brownies
For topping
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened at room temperature for about 30 minutes)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 ounce coffee liqueur
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 1/4 tsp ground coffee
For brownies
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground coffee
Preheat oven to 350 and butter square brownie pan. With a hand mixer on medium speed, blend ingredients for topping until smooth. In a heavy saucepan, melt butter and chocolates until smooth. Remove from heat and let cool for 10 minutes. Stir in sugar, coffee and vanilla until smooth. Stir in flour and salt, until just combined. Spread batter evenly in pan, smoothing to level. Drop cream cheese mix in large spoonfuls on top of batter. Smooth to cover evenly. Use a knife or small fork to make decorative swirls on top, if desired. Bake for 50 minutes or until top is golden and a tester knife comes out clean. Cool in pan before cutting. Store in refrigerator between layers of wax paper. Serve cold or at room temperature.
These look wonderful
I really like the ground coffee in these brownies. The photo is yummy, very yummy looking. Thanks for sharing.
Hard to go wrong with coffee and cream!
Oh, that must be delicious!
These sound absolutely AMAZING! Great photo!
You can just ship those out here: the post office is open tomorrow.
I just gained 5 pounds looking at these! Yum! We will be doing holiday treats tomorrow and these would be just amazing. I hope you and Katherine enjoy your holiday weekend. : )
I SO hate when you guys post late at night. This triggers my food cravings.
now i guess ill go grab a bowl of cereal…again.
Okay now, this looks SO good!!!! I’m definitely making these. I love brownies combined with cream cheese!
Did you just say brownies? I absolutely love brownies.. any time of the day, any day of the week. This recipe will be saved and made :).
Delicious brownies. Have a great Christmas and thanks for a year of good recipes.
Wonderful balance!
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Oh double decker brownies – great, except I would skip the coffee bit, don’t enjoy the flavour of cold coffee.
Enjoy your Christmas. :-) Mandy
Sounds wonderful…can I have one – or two – fro breakfast?
So beautiful…. Thank you. Happy New Year and Merry Christmas dear Katherine and dear Rufus, you are one of my beautiful blogger friends that I have met in this year, 2011… Greetings and Love from Istanbul, nia
A great treat for Christmas Eve breakfast, snack, party … oh … any day!
Merry Christmas Team Rufus. I invite you to visit and select a present under the tree. http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/on-a-time-for-gifts/
PS: … and yes, a glass a port with those brownies please.
Trifecta is right; these sound positively addictive! I hope you guys have a great Christmas!
Oooh, I love coffee in desserts and I love cream cheese brownies…These have the best of everything!
You better believe it is. :) Merry early Christmas to you and Katherine!
Mmm, cream in my coffee is a must, so this more than works for me :D
I heard a story the news the other night that they have found a way for people to inhale your caffeine. Still I think I’d prefer these-chocolate and all. Merry Christmas guys! Hope Santa’s good to you!
these look insanely good!
Tis the season to be . . . fat and jolly! Yum!
Yes! Caffeine is good for you…in all forms!
nom nom nom…don’t sound too hard to make, either, always a plus! Merry Christmas!!
Thanks, Merry Christmas to you too!
Oh my!!!! I’m making these! What a great combo, cheese and brownies! YES!!!!
-Jen
The coffee and cream caught my attention! These look divine! Stopping by to wish you both a “Buon Natale!” :)
Thanks, Lisa. Hope you and the family has a great holiday weekend too.
Caffeine is definitely good for me! These brownies look delicious and are very original. I have never seen a combination: a coffee brownie with a coffee-flavoured cheesecake top! Must be excellent as an energising dessert with a cup of coffee. Merry Christmas to you and Katherine!
Thanks, Sissi. Merry Christmas to you too!
Oh, I never thought to add ground coffee to baking before – I assume you mean untouched ground coffee… like, literally Beans -> Ground up -> sprinkled in? Looks delicious :D
Merry Christmas Greg and Katherine :)
Merry Christmas to you too. Yes, on the ground coffee. Funny story… our friends were moving and gave us groceries from their pantry a few years back. They slipped in some Folgers. That stuff lasted forever. If you don’t have Folgers just think of mud.We had that for years, only used it in brownies.
What a clever idea…coffee and cream brownies. You two really come up with some different treats for us.
You mean because caffeine and liquor is good for you, right?
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
Clearly an oversight on our part! Hope you guys have a great Christmas too.
Talk about a caffeinated Christmas! These look totally awesome. How genius: coffee, chocolate and cream mixed together to make a brownie! I’m really impressed. Maybe Santa will bring me some of these tonight. (Fingers crossed!)
These look very intoxicatingly delicious. I definitely have to try these.
These look great!
Somebody said coffee liqour !!… Its an adult snack. Looks very good remainds me of one of the Indian sweet during winter without alcohol of course.
Cheese cake and brownie in one, and my flavourite flavour too!
Caffeine is fanastic, and these brownies look wonderful! Yum yum.
Yum…I’ve heard coffee added to chocolate enhances the taste..perfectly made!
These look great! I love brownies and a little coffee and cream cheese just make them that much better!
Love it! I am trying so hard to be good since I have been so bad during the holidays.
You are making me fat. :P
Great combination! I will be posting about a chocolate, coffee and hazelnut torte very shortly – I promise I didn’t steal the idea!
Ha, if you had we’d be flattered. We didn’t invent the coffee/chocolate combo!
DECADENT.