Baking for Angel

Today is Valentines Day. As always I will from this point forward refer to it as Singles Awareness Day, as I always have. (Even though I'm no longer single.) Essentially I decided to treat this holiday like any other day, except perhaps that I'm writing in red today. Angel and I went to Saladworks for lunch, came home and I decided to bake him brownies. (Cream Cheese Brownies to be exact.) Which actually just came out of the oven!!! They smell delicious.


I figured I'd go ahead and post this recipe since I'm typing it up for Mike anyway.

Cream Cheese Brownies

1/4 cup butter
1 cup (6oz) semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of hot water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of Salt
(if desired you can add 1/2 cup of walnuts, although I never do.)

Cream Cheese Filling:
1 (8oz) package of cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Prepare Cream Cheese Filling and set aside. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease an 8 or 9 inch baking pan. In a medium saucepan, combine butter or margarine and chocolate pieces. Heat over low heat until melted and smooth, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir in sugar, eggs, water, and vanilla until combined. Add flour, baking soda and salt, stirring well. (If you're using them stir in the walnuts.) Spread half the chocolate batter evenly in greased baking pan. Top with Cream Cheese Filling, spreading evenly. Drop spoonfuls of remaining chocolate batter evenly on top of cream cheese filling, spreading as evenly as possible with a knife. To marble, swirl the knife gently through the batter. Bake 30-35 minutes. Do not overbake. Brownies should be moist in center. Cool in pan. Cut into squares, store in refrigerator. Makes about 20 (1-1/2-inch) brownies.

Cream Cheese Filling:
In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.

As you can see I decided to marble this set. I can't wait until they're cool and we can eat them. They're making the whole house smell delicious. So while I'm still protesting Valentine's Day, and the entire commercial establishment of holidays in general. I'm totally ok with spending a little quality time with my boyfriend and baking him brownies. Ok so maybe I'm sitting here writing this and he's playing Modern Warfare 2, and to some that might not really be considered "quality time." I think it is. The entire point is that we're together, even though we're doing our own thing. I'm sure later we'll sit down and watch a movie or something. :)

On a side note... Isn't it hilarious the screen names that people use these days?