A brownie topped with a mixture of chocolate hazelnut butter and cream cheese, mixed together and then swirled with the brownie to make a decadent Hazelnut Cream Cheese Brownie.
I am a big fan of Nutella, I add it to oatmeal, eat it as a dip with fruit and of course just eat it off the spoon, along with many other ways of enjoying this wonderful spread. Although I try to get most of my food Organic if possible and I have yet to see an Organic Nutella so I usually buy this…
I like it just as much!
I have seen so many wonderful Nutella Brownie recipes that I have been just so intrigued to try and I am such a big brownie fan I will probably try them all but for now this is the one I just had to try!
Hazelnut Cream Cheese Brownies
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese Topping
5 ounces cream cheese
2 Tbsp butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 Tbsp flour
1/3 cup hazelnut spread (ex;Nutella)
Brownie Batter
3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4 Tbsp butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 8×8 inch baking dish.
- Make the cream cheese topping first. Cream together butter, sugar and flour. Add cream cheese and mix/blend until smooth. Scrape bowl and add the egg and beat until the topping is nice and creamy. Scrap bowl and add hazelnut spread, beat about one minute or until the hazelnut spread is mixed into the cream cheese mixture completely; set aside.
- For the brownie batter: Sift flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder into a medium sized bowl.
- In a small bowl cream sugar and 1/2 stick of butter, add eggs one at a time, beat well then add vanilla.
- Fold egg, sugar, butter and vanilla mixture into the bowl of dry ingredients. It looks like there isn’t enough brownie batter and the batter is very thick but this is normal and it comes out just fine:)
- Spread 3/4 of the brownie batter into the bottom of an 8 x 8 baking dish.
- Randomly dollop the cream cheese topping over the brownie batter.
- Randomly dollop the rest of the brownie batter on top of the cream cheese batter. Swirl with the tip of a knife or a toothpick.
- Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. If you like your brownies a bit gooey then bake them for 40 minutes. For a dense cake like center bake for 50 minutes. Enjoy!
Recipe adapted from Flour on my Face.
15 Responses to “Hazelnut Cream Cheese Brownies”
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Mmmm. I made something similar but without the addition of Nutella. Now I need to try these! Merry Christmas!
Oh these brownies look sooo good. I wish I could eat them but I’m allergic to hazelnuts. But if I wasn’t, I glady eat them all!
Now THAT is more like it! The pictures now really make me want to try these brownies!
Just a name of your brownies made me come and say..what a fantastic idea! Delicious!
Gorgeous brownies! I love baking with Nutella. I will have to try this spread to see how it tastes. I like the addition of cream cheese.:)
I didn’t know you could get organic nutella spread. I like it.. I like it a lot! These brownies sounds absolutely delicious.. I’d love to have one right about now!
Oh yum, I can see the swirl of creamy hazelnut in the middle. A fantastic idea to marry the cream cheese and the choc. hazelnut butter!
These sound delicious! I just made another batch of hazelnut brownies but cream cheese must make them over the top and so much better.
These sound delicious! I love Nutella and fancied up brownies as well
I hope you had a great Christmas and are still enjoying the holiday season 
Nutella and cream cheese. I’m floating up to heaven! This looks and sounds so delicious. Thank you for sharing this with me. I hope you have a lovely week. I wish you and your family the happiest New Year!
nutell and cream cheese…oh a deadly combo..a perfect treat to celebrate with!!
happy holidays!
sweetlife
Oh, I have a party tomorrow night, these would be perfect to take! Thanks for sharing!
Magnificent! I just made Nutella hot chocolate and thought I was in heaven. Now I know that heaven is Nutella hot chocolate and a hazelnut cream cheese brownie!
You had me at the title! Looks delish.
Love this brownie recipe!! The brownies turned out great!