Recipe of the Day - June 24 (lowfat cream cheese brownies)
 

Lowfat Orange Cream Cheese Brownies

Ingredients
Low-fat cooking spray
1/2 cup (1 stick) Butter Unsalted, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp. orange extract
2 large egg whites
1 large egg
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

Topping
1 8oz. tub Low-Fat cream cheese
1 Tbs. cornstarch
1 tsp. orange extract
1 14oz. can fat free sweetened condensed milk
1 large egg

Preparation
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat bottom and sides of a 13 x 9 inch baking pan with cooking spray.

Place softened butter in bowl and beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy.

Add sugar and orange extract, beat again until well blended. (2-4 minutes). Slowly add egg whites and egg one at a time beating well after each addition. Slowly add milk and cocoa and beat until well blended.

Carefully spoon flour into measuring cups and level with a knife.* In separate bowl sift in the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to cocoa mixture, beat until well blended. Pour/spoon mixture into pan.

To make topping
Place cream cheese into mixing bowl and beat at medium speed until smooth and creamy.

Slowly add cornstarch, orange extract, condensed milk, and egg. Beat until smooth.

Exchange beater for wire whisk and whisk for 20-30 seconds to insure smoothness.

Spread over batter moving pan around to spread topping evenly making sure to get in the corners.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes-until topping is set. Cool in pan on wire rack.

*Do not simply scoop out flour with measuring cups as this compacts the flour and adds more flour than is needed to the batter making it very heavy. Spooning the flour helps keep recipes light and insures the correct amount of flour is used.

Serves 24

These may be low fat but there is plenty of sugar and flavor to make up for that.
I love just about every kind of brownie and these sound very tasty.

I'm going to try a low-carb version of this as soon as I make another grocery store trip, and I'll report back if it turns out alright.

Re: Recipe of the Day - June 24 (lowfat cream cheese brownies)
 

I successfully made a topping-less low-carb version of these, which turned out well. Best eaten with some zero-carb whip cream on top. :)

Simply use the below ingredients, instead (sugar = splenda, flour = almond flour.. pretty simple substitution).