Matcha Green Tea Cheesecake Swirl Brownies (Recipe)

Matcha Green Tea Cheesecake Swirl Brownies are just so yummy!  My kids have already eaten half of them. We love brownies and we love cheesecake so a combination of the two is too natural. I was sent a sample of Mocafe Matcha Green tea powder and asked to use it in a recipe. (I requested the sample via 5MinutesForMom.com, the samples are gone but you can find more reipces there.)  

My kids have been asking for cheesecake brownies so I thought I could take it to another level by adding the Mocafe Matcha Green Tea powder.  Sometimes as a special treat we go to Pho Tai Vietamese and buy the girls Green Tea or cantaloupe  Bubble Tea.  If you have never had bubble tea it is more like a Frappe with large tapioca pearls at the bottom of course the girls like it without the bubbles (tapioca). 

Ingredients:

Brownies:
Box of Brownies mix and the ingredients listed to make plain brownies.
Mine called for eggs, oil and water
(Note: I substituted milk for the water for extra flavor)

Cheesecake topping:
1/3 cup of white sugar
8 oz. of Cream Cheese
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 Tablespoon Matcha Green Tea Powder

 Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F

Make brownies as instructed on the box.
Pour brownies into greased pan (9x13 in)



Mix the cream cheese and sugar together.  Add the egg and vanilla extract.  Mix until uniform.  Mix in the Matcha Green Tea Powder.
 
Add the cream cheese mixture to the brownies by the spoonful. Evenly distribute the cream cheese mixture over the surface of the brownie mix.  

 Once all of the cream cheese mixture is on top of the brownie mix swirl with a knife.  Hold the knife perpendicular to the pan and go back and forth in a grid pattern in one direction and then the other.

Bake the Brownies for about 1 hour. Let the Brownies coll, cut and then enjoy!

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Giveaway: Pillsbury Baguette Chips ends 7/8

  I am a huge snacker, actually my whole family is.  My husband usually has a snack just as we finish cleaning up from dinner.  Eventhough we snack a lot I try to make most of them healthy snacks.  We eat lots of fruit and raw vegatables, a family favorite is red bell peppers just plain.  My new snack is cottage cheese and Pillsbury Baguette Chips.  I put some cottage cheese in a ramekin and scoop it up with the baguett chips.  It is so yummy.  I love eating them plain too, which is how the rest of my family has been eating them.  Both flavors taste really good.  I like the Chedder Sundried Tomato best with cottage cheese and the Italian Cheese and Herb by itself.  I also like that according to the information I was sent a serving of the Pillsbury Baguette Chips has half the fat of regular potato chips.  I just think they taste great. 

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Giveaway: Mott’s® Medleys Fruit Flavored Snacks

My kids are a little picky when it comes to fruit snacks.  Luckily Mott's is one that they do like.  We were sent the Mott’s® Medleys Fruit Flavored Snack in Berry and Assorted Fruit.  They said they like both but considering how fast the Berry ones went I think that is their favorite.  Of course it is not just my kids, my husband has been packing them in his lunch too.  He said that he likes them for the commute home.  The girls told Daddy that he could share their fruit snack with them.  I tried them too, and I like the flavor and the texture.  I find that fruit snack are sometimes to soft or too hard, these were just right.  They are perfect to take to the park and for our roadtrips this summer.

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