Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

This is a 1976 Better Homes & Gardens Recipe.

Anything with chocolate and cream cheese must be delicious, right?!

Enjoy!

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

6 tbsp butter or margarine

1/3 cup honey

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup sugar

dash of salt

1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional

Grease a 9x9x2 or 11x8x2 baking pan; set aside. In a saucepan on low heat, melt chocolate and butter, stir constantly. Cool slightly.

Stir in honey, 2 eggs and vanilla. Add flour and baking powder and stir just until flour is mixed in.

Pour half of the batter in prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar together. Beat in the remaining egg and salt. Stir in nuts, if using.

Pour mixture over partially baked batter layer. Spoon remaining chocolate batter over filling. Using a knife, cut through the layers to get a marbled effect.

Bake for 30-35 minutes until a toothpick will come out clean. Cool; cut into bars.

Approx. 24 brownies.

(in my picture above, you'll see that I actually put more than 1/2 of the batter in the bottom layer so alot of the cream cheese filling is right on top. I didn't mean to but it still turned out good. )