Chocolate Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
These Chocolate Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting are the best decadent brownies. Sweet cream cheese frosting is perfect on fudgy brownies!
Servings: 16
Calories: 286.7kcal
Ingredients
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅔ cup salted butter (melted & cooled to room temperature)
- ½ cup hot coffee
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ⅓ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
Cream Cheese Icing
- 4 oz cream cheese
- 2 oz salted butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9x13 baking dish.
- In a medium bowl stir together the cocoa powder and baking soda. Add half the butter and mix well.
- Add the hot coffee. Stir until the mixture thickens.
- Add the remaining butter, vanilla, eggs, and chocolate chips. Mix well. Now, add the dry ingredients.
- Mix until smooth.
- Spread in the prepared pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the center only jiggles slightly.
- Cool completely.
Frosting
- Cream the cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl.
- Add the powdered sugar gradually. Mix in the vanilla.
- Spread or pipe on top of the cooled brownies.
Notes
For the fudgiest brownies cool completely and then refrigerate overnight. If you like your brownies warm reheat them after they have been completely cold.
Nutrition
Serving: 1brownie | Calories: 286.7kcal | Carbohydrates: 41.5g | Protein: 3.4g | Fat: 13.3g | Saturated Fat: 7.9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3.7g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 41.5mg | Sodium: 142.8mg | Potassium: 166.5mg | Fiber: 2.7g | Sugar: 29.2g | Vitamin A: 271.7IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 19.9mg | Iron: 1.9mg