Goat Cheese Brownies

So, this week we were watching Throwdown with Bobby Flay and he had challenged the Vermont Brownie Company to a brownie throwdown. He did a brownie with peanut butter caramel sauce and they did goat cheese brownies. So I was inspired to make my own recipe of Goat Cheese Brownies. They are very similar to cream cheese brownies, but much more complex and very tangy. I like them a lot surprisingly, hopefully you will too!

Goat Cheese Brownies

For the Brownies:

1 ¼C AP Flour

1t Salt

2T Dark Dutch Process Cocoa Powder

11oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

1 Stick of Butter, Cut into Cubes

1t Instant Espresso Powder

1 ½C Sugar

½C Brown Sugar

5 Eggs, Room Temperature

2t Vanilla

Salt, For Sprinkling

1oz Chocolate Chips, For Sprinkling

For the Goat Cheese Layer:

10oz Goat Cheese, Softened & Room Temperature

1 Egg, Room Temperature

1t Vanilla

1/3C Sugar

Directions:

1. First, make a double boiler with a pot of boiling water and a glass bowl. Make sure that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the hot water. Put the chocolate chips, butter, and espresso power and melt together. Once the mixture is melted, take the bowl off the heat and mix in both sugars. Let this mixture come to room temperature before adding the eggs. Add 3 eggs at first and blend together. Then add the other 2 eggs, as well as the vanilla and blend until well incorporated. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, and cocoa powder. Slowly fold the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture, but do not over mix.

2. Preheat the oven to 350 and line a 13x9 baking dish with tin foil and spray with Pam.  Pour half of the brownie mixture into the prepared pan.

3. To make the goat cheese layer, whip together the goat cheese and sugar, until it starts to soften. Then add the egg and vanilla, beat until creamy and fluffy. Spread this layer over the first layer of brownie batter. Add the remaining half of the brownie mixture over the goat cheese layer and spread. Top the brownies by sprinkling some chocolate chips and salt.

4. Bake for 35 minutes and then let the brownies come to room temperature before you cut them.

5. Enjoy!

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