Marble Brownies

I spend many weekends in my pjs, on my bed, watching food network. No sense in denying it. I love lazy sundays.

Sunny Anderson, Love her! She was on and had made a batch of Red Velvet Swirl Brownies. BROWNIES. RED VELVET. OMG. I had everything except the red food coloring? but i made it anyway. Makes for a GREAT pre Holiday Nibbler!

Red Velvet Swirl Brownies Recipe courtesy Sunny Anderson, 2010

1 tablespoon butter, for greasing baking pan

Red Velvet Brownie layer:

1 stick unsalted butter

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup cocoa powder

pinch of salt

1 tablespoon red food coloring

1 teaspoon vinegar

2 eggs

3/4 cup flour

1/4 - 1/2 cup walnuts, gently chopped, (amount is to taste)

Cream Cheese layer:

8 ounces cream cheese

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1/8 teaspoon vanilla

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Butter an 8x8 baking pan, set aside. Melt the butter either on stovetop .

Sonny Says: Remove to a bowl and add sugar, vanilla, cocoa powder, salt, food coloring and vinegar, in that order mixing between additions. Whisk eggs in a small bowl and combine with warm cocoa mix. Fold the flour into the chocolate batter and combine lightly. Add walnuts and pour into prepared baking dish, saving a ¼ cup of batter for the top.

Mo Diva says: Put eveything in the mixer and beat on level 2 till there are no more lumps?. Sorry Sonny, im lazy.

For the cream cheese layer, blend together the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla in a medium bowl.

Gently spread cream cheese layer on top of brownie batter in the pan. Dollop remaining brownie batter over the cream cheese layer.

Using a skewer or the sharp end of a knife, drag the tip through the cream cheese mixture to create a swirl patter.

Bake brownies for 30 20minutes. Remove to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely before cutting.

Minus the red food coloring, these came out all kinds of awesome!

Fudgy, Sweet, pretty looking!

Easy to travel with!

and perfect to lay out for company!

these were a hit! If i had red food coloring, i am sure these would have been even MORE stunning! I am very pleased with this recipe and will definitely be making them again for company, or just because!