Scream Cheese Brownies

By mm_food4me

Ingredients

• 1 brownie mix with ingredients required in mix (I like Betty Crocker's Triple Chunk Supreme or use half of this homemade brownie recipe)
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 5 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons flour
• orange food coloring (optional)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from the-girl-who-ate-everything.com

Preparation

Step 1

These are an easy Halloween treat…brownies with a cream cheese layer. Normally you are supposed to put chocolate frosting on top but I wanted the Halloween colors to show so I added a little bit more sweetness to the brownies to make up for it. These can easily be adapted for Christmas or any other holiday colors. Betty Crocker has a version of this recipe

1 brownie mix with ingredients required in mix (I like Betty Crocker's Triple Chunk Supreme or use half of this

Mix by hand your favorite brownie mix. Spread ½ of the brownie mixture in 9x13 inch pan sprayed with cooking spray. Mix cream cheese, butter, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, and flour and mix well. Add orange food coloring to desired color. Spread cream cheese mixture on top. Drop remaining brownie batter on top and pull a knife through. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Frost with chocolate icing when cool if desired.

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I love the name of these brownies and that orange color looks so cool mixed in with the dark of the brownies. If it wasn’t Halloween, it could easily be called tiger brownies.

i made these brownies today, but i swapped out the butter in the cream cheese mixture for pumpkin. yummy pumpkin flavor, less calories/fat, and natural orange color.

Wow–great idea! I might add some mint flavoring to the cream cheese mixture–chocolate and mint is such a good combination!

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They just came out of the oven & smell great! My daughter “helped” by pouring extra vanilla in. We will have to wait until after church at coffee to try them.

I would say if you want to have more orange showing through, a fudgy brownie mix works better since it’s a bit more difficult to spread so it doesn’t take over the cream cheese layer as much.

Should I be use a family size box of brownie mix? For example, Betty Crocker Fudge Brownies, 13×9 family size? Is that a big enough box?