Cheesecake Marble Squares
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These Cheesecake Marble Squares are the perfect combination of a brownie, cheesecake, and chocolate cake. Pure Heaven!
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Chocolate Cake Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Marbled Cheesecake Bars, you guys. My mom introduced this dessert to the family when I was in high school. We would be served one and then they would mysteriously end up in the freezer, only to make another appearance a couple times a year. It was tragic!
This dessert is the best combination of a brownie, chocolate cake, and cheesecake. It’s cakey and creamy, chocolatey and rich, but not overly sweet. Each bite is just so good!
Ingredients Needed
Here’s what you’ll need to make them.
(Scroll below to the printable recipe card for all the measurements and details.)
- Cream cheese – Softened to room temperature, so it’s easy to blend.
- Sour cream – Adds a slight tang to the dessert, but also make the crumb nice and creamy.
- Sugar – For sweetness.
- Eggs – Provides structure to the batter.
- Butter – Adds richness.
- Water
- Chocolate chips – These get added to the filling and sprinkled on top before baking.
- All-purpose flour – Spooned and leveled to avoid excess batter, which could results in a dry crumbly cake.
- Baking soda – A leavening agent that gives the dessert lift and helps create the tender crumb.
- Kosher salt – Just a pinch so the flavors aren’t flat.
Video: Cheesecake Marble Squares
Proper Storage
- Storing leftovers. Leftovers can be kept stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 day or up to 5 days in the refrigerator.
- To freeze. To extend their life even further, you can freeze them. Wrap in plastic wrap and again in foil, then transfer to an airtight freezer-safe container for up to 1 month. When ready to thaw, allow them to come to room temperature before unwrapping to prevent them from drying out.
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Cheesecake Marble Squares
Ingredients
- 8 ounce package cream cheese, , softened
- 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar, , divided
- 3 large eggs, , divided
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, , divided
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter and flour a 15×10-inch jelly roll pan.
- In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, combine cream cheese and 1/2 cup of the sugar until well blended. Beat in 1 egg and mix well. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan, combine butter, water, and 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips. Bring to a boil; then reduce heat to medium, stirring until butter is melted and chocolate is completely dissolved. Remove from the heat.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, remaining 2 cups of sugar, baking soda, and salt. Pour in the chocolate mixture and stir until combined.
- Add in the sour cream and remaining 2 eggs; stir until completely combined.
- Pour batter into your prepared pan.
- Spoon cream cheese mixture all over the batter. Cut through batter with a knife up vertically and then across horizontally for a marble effect.
- Bake for 15 minutes and them sprinkle the surface with remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips.
- Place back into the oven for another 8-10 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let cool and then cut into squares.
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Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and any changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are very important to you, I would recommend calculating them yourself.
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I made this for years. Big favorite . Recently saw 1/3 c of honey added to the melted chips and egg and vanilla.
This recipe was super fun, but the end result was just okay to me. My boyfriend however cleared half the pan after dinner :) The recipe was very easy to make, so if you’re looking for something relatively quick with little effort, this is definitely a great option!
Realllly good! YUM!
Takes a lot of dishes to complete, but worth it! Yum!
This was very good! Was not overly sweet. Just perfect.
Made these for a baby shower and everyone loved them – thank you!
We have a small family so I froze have the batch. The defrosted quite well a month later – tasted fresh!
There are no brownies in my immediate future at all, but Mad Men, well we have to wait 2-3 years to get a DVD over here but then we watch it obesessively 3-4-5 times before sending it on to the next greedy lover of Hamm or Joanie or Roger.
I LOVE flip flop tan lines! These bars sound absolutely amazing. Anything with chocolate and cream cheese makes me happy. Next time I have an excuse to make an oh-so-bad dessert, this is it!
Okay ~ Paul, I’ve told Amy this before, but you just cinched it ~ you’re a keeper!!! {{sigh}}
Oh, wait…. there’s something else…. oh, yeah, the marble squares. They look super scrumptious, Amy. I’m amazed that you can even think of food when you’re married to a man who not only feels that way about you, but says it publicly. You are one lucky lady. (And he’s just as lucky to have found you.)
I’ll have to wait to make these when I’m at my daughter’s house ’cause I know I wouldn’t be able to resist eating the whole batch in one sitting!
I made your marble squares for a church meeting tonight. They were quite a hit. Fortunately, there were other desserts so I was able to bring a few home. They will definitely not see the freezer, however, or the morning!
I did a lake thing with a bunch of kids the other day and brought these. They loved them!
A mixologist is a ninja bartender, yes!
Amy, let me know when you’re caught up on Mad Men. Lots of shenanigans in this weeks episode.
Frozen Marble Squares–superior, I’m sure. Years ago in an early bizarre attempt to lose weight I went to a fasting “resort.” The inmates…er, guests…sat around and talked food during every conscious moment. Some thought it proper to offer suggestions for avoidance of pastry gorging, and one suggested freezing the Sara Lee as a method. Some method. From that day forth I learned to freeze all the richest pastries before planting my face into their centers. Once you’ve tried frozen fudge cake there’s no going back.
I have no idea where you think those marble squares are going. I see you in a bathing suit, and you make my heart stop a little each time I see you.
As for failing statistics three times, the very least I thought I told you is when to quit. I got three “D”s but found out that, in the overall scheme of things, the feat was not statistically significant. Of some statistical interest is that I’m in the top 2% of marble square inhalers. I was thinking of writing the IOC and getting marble square inhaling as an Olympic sport.
I just saw my original post. It seems I have a vowel deficiency at 6 AM. Therefore, from now on, I’ll be late getting into this conversation.
And, btw, everybody on Mad Men is skinny because they substitute smoking for marble squares. I just don’t understand why you can’t have your marble square and eat them, too.
And what Andrea was trying to tell you Amy is that she’s borderline diabetic and, having half a chance, she sneaks drinking the maraschino cherry juice out of the jar, made so much more palatable by two or three Manhattans and a Bronx cheer.
The marble squares remind me of my grandmothers, who always had baked treats like this when we visited. Like Mad Men, the brownies are retro cool.
For the best classic cocktails in the Twin Cities, head to Strip Club in St Paul. Don’t take offense, it’s a restaurant with an award-winning mixologist who makes his own sodas, seltzers and such. He’s got your bitters!
Your posts usually get a chuckle out of me, and this was no exception. It’s true that these marble squares taste good no matter what you do to them—- eat them fresh, frozen or defrosted. As long as I have a freezer, something will end up there.
Eh hem…where was I? Why wasn’t I called to share? Hmmmm….
I haven’t had these in decades (yes, plural, decadeS). Yumsers!
Please make more and then come over with the kids. We can have a Marble Square party! :o)
Hey, I use Angostura bitters in Manhattans–which are a near cocktail cousin of the Old Fashioned. The Manhattan, now THERE’S a drink! (I use maraschino cherry juice to get a nice auburn color and a little sweetness.) Anyway, you can get Angostura bitters at a really good liquor store–Surdyks if you’re in the Twin Cities, or maybe even at Zipps. It should be near the real liquor.
Those marble squares look fantastic! If I could bake worth a lick, I’d be making them. As is, I think I’ll be forwarding this recipe to my better half.
Lost was pretty entertaining for the most part and finished REALLY strong. Mad Men – Meh. Nice late ’50s/early ’60s look, but I could care less about any of the characters. I don’t find them offensive, I just find them boring. I stopped watching after 3 episodes (my infatuation with the art direction wore off at about that time, I think).
Finally! A prize worth going for. So when do you give away the treadmill and the liquor to make me forget that I ate 16 marble squares at a sitting, and now believe I know where all good and bad feelings come from. But first some the good.
These are creamy squares from heaven with each chocolate chip a remembrance of something special in ones life like the time I got a perfect score on a match test. Yes, it was “Zero,” but it was perfect.
Lay’s potato chips used to advertise, “Bet you can’t eat just one!” Well, the same is true for these squares from Shangri La (Dee Dah, Dee Dah, Dee Dah).
So rich and creamy, so light and so heavy at the same time that, with the first six, you can maintain a depth of 8 feet when swimming in the Pacific. So don’t forget your periscope. Just remember, after the first six, you take on the shape of the sub rather than the torpedo.
NOTE TO ALL: After the end up in the freezer, they taste just as good frozen as warm. Mom only thought that the freezer was as good as a bank vault. And it was ‘cept I kept making withdrawals.
Yes, I can see why this recipe would be completely dangerous in bathing suit weather. They look fantastic!!
I’ve never heard of Mad Men, I’ll have to look it up. I like watch TV while I eat brownies, er, I mean exercise too!! :-)
First of all, I’m pretty certain that you are so tiny that you look AWESOME in a bathing suit.
Second of all. I want flip flop tan lines. But first I want a marble square. I have no intentions of wearing a bathing suit this summer and for that sacrifice. I think I deserve a few marble squares. I also have a feeling that by “disappear into the fridge” it actually means that your mom ate them. Just a hunch. Moms do things like that sometimes.
My brother loves Mad Men and made us go hunting for some angostura bitters a while ago so he could make an Old Fashioned. To no avail. Those things are elusive.
Yum. They look so very good. I’m with you on Mad Men….I’m addicted, and I say the very same thing….please don’t get cancelled! Every show I love seems too.
I wanted to be the first comment. Why else am I up at this ridiculous hour? Well, I guess I could bake…
I would love to try these but I can’t seem to see a recipe for them… is it somewhere on here and I’m just being a ditz? lol :) Thanks