Homemade Chocolate Brownies

Who doesn’t like chocolate brownies?  Chocolate brownies are a timeless classic, with many different tasty variations. Nuts, cherries, raspberries, marshmallows, caramel, peanut butter, white chocolate, and mint flavoring are just some of the ingredients that can be added to a basic brownie recipe.

Chocolate brownies are known all over the world, but they are most popular in America. And of course, the best way to serve a chocolate brownie is fresh and hot with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

However, I'll begin with a wonderful Cream Cheese Brownies recipe which has cream cheese as one of the key ingredients, and we will also call this one semi-homemade since it calls for a German Chocolate Cake mix. 

However, if you have the time you could use our family's German Chocolate Cake recipe and then add the other ingredients for a truly homemade, from scratch recipe.

Cream Cheese Brownies

Ingredients:
1 pkg. German Chocolate cake mix
1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 egg
½ c. sugar
½ c . milk
1 pkg. chocolate chips

Instructions:
Grease and flour jelly roll pan, 15 ½ x 10 ½ x 1 inch. Prepare cake mix as directed on package. Pour into pan.

Mix remaining ingredients. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto batter. Cut through batter with knife or spatula several times for marbled effect. Sprinkle with additional chocolate chips and chopped nuts if desired. Bake at 350º 25 to 30 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Best-ever Brownies

Ingredients:
¾ c. sifted flour
1 c. sugar
¼ t. salt
2 eggs
½ t. baking powder
2 sq. chocolate, melted
1 c. chopped nuts
1 t. vanilla
½ c. butter
½ c. powdered sugar (opt.)

Instructions:
Sift dry ingredients. Mix in nuts. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beat after each. Blend in chocolate and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Beat.
Turn into greased pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 min. Cool in pan. Cut. Dust with powdered sugar.