Brownies with Cream Cheese and Walnuts

Ingredients

For the dough:

2 eggs

225 g sugar

100 g butter

50 g cocoa powder

100 g flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp vanilla essence

50 g pecans

For the frosting:

150 g cream cheese

50 g full-fat sour cream

1 tsp vanilla essence

25 g sugar

Place the butter in a bowl and add the cocoa powder. Place the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and heat in a double boiler (stirring) until the butter and cocoa powder are completely dissolved. Remove from the boiler and let cool to room temperature.

 Beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy (5 minutes on high speed with a mixer). Mix in the remaining sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Pour the butter mixture into the egg mixture, add the flour and baking powder, and mix gently. Add the nuts and mix a couple more times.

Whisk together the cheese, vanilla essence, 25 g of sugar, and sour cream. Spread half the batter into the pan, carefully spread the cream cheese layer on top, smooth it out gently (it's best to do this with a spatula), and top with the remaining batter.

Bake the brownies in a preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with wet crumbs attached. Remove the brownies from the oven and let them cool.

Enjoy!