Cream Cheese Brownies

I chose this recipe because it in one of my favorites. This is a recipe that was passed down to my mother from her aunt. The note card in the picture is written in my mother’s handwriting when she was a teen. She has saved the note card even though I am pretty sure that she could cook these brownies off the top of her head at this point. For me, this recipe makes me think of the holidays because that is when my mother makes these brownies.

 Growing up these were probably my favorite dessert (they may still be). We used to always have them for Christmas. So, maybe it is the memory of having them at Christmas that I really love? A few years back my mother showed me the recipe and put me in charge of making the brownies. They were the first thing that I actually backed that were not from a box. It felt weird to be the one cooking this family dessert that I had grown up eating. It was a sort of passing of the torch.