Cherry Garcia brownies are patterned after the Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor of the same name.
Course: Dessert
Keyword: brownies, cherry, dark chocolate
Ingredients
1box dark chocolate brownie mixplus ingredients it calls for
8ouncescream cheeseslightly softened
2teaspoonsvanilla
1egg
1/2cupsugar
1cuppitted and quartered fresh cherries
1/2cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and prepare an 8-by-8-inch baking pan by spraying it with cooking spray.
Prepare the brownie mix according to package instructions and dump into the prepared pan. Set it aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, vanilla, egg and sugar until it's light and fluffy (mine actually ended up mostly soupy, which works, too. Just make sure it's well combined).
Stir in the cherries and chocolate chips and dump the cream cheese mixture over the brownie mix in the pan. Swirl the mixture with a knife to get some of the cream cheese layer into the brownies.
Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted down into the brownie layer comes up clean (mine took a bit longer than 45 minutes) and the cheesecake layer on top is set up.
Let the brownies cool a bit before slicing. I stored mine in an airtight container in the fridge.