February 10

How I Celebrated

I love brownies more than I love cake. I am just not that in to frosting, and I would rather find nuts in there instead of raisins. There is more of an awful surprise in cake, I think. So, this was my first time making the cream cheese brownie. I don't think I had had one before today. I know I have had cream cheese cake, and I probably have seen the marbled brownies thinking they were just marbled with blondie batter. Well. I actually didn't have as much cream cheese as was needed in the recipe, so I tried stretching it with some plain yogurt. It made it a bit more runny, so I tried to put in a bit of flax seed meal to compensate. The bake time was significantly longer, but it looks and tastes alright. It really sticks to the bottom of the pan though.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  There are a few recipes for sugar free cream cheese brownies out there like this one

• Gluten Free

  This recipe is both gluten free and sugar free. There are also gluten free mixes like Bob's red mill.

• Vegetarian

  You bet!

Recipes

• Betty Crocker
• Duncan Hines
• Martha Stewart
• All recipes

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History

Punchbowl
Wait, a brownie is a "cookie bar"?! Don't you ever say that to me again, punchbowl. A brownie is a sacred dessert between cake and cookie, and you will NOT try to categorize it in a group that it does not belong! I don't know that I have tried a cream cheese brownie, I think I tried cream cheese chocolate cake at my auntie's for Christmas a couple years ago.

Merchandise

Not sure what that one book is about, but it looks like a bunch of little people. I wondered if it was just a Utah girls camp thing. Cause there was a "brownie hike" that we went on where they told us the story of the brownies (sounded like a story of gnomes or some other little folk) who lived in the woods. They would take us at night and we would have to be very quiet and then they took us through their "village" made of hills and sticks and other stuff. Then we went back to camp and sang songs and ate brownies (the best part). 
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Restaurants

• Corner Bakery Cafe is the first that came up for cream cheese brownies (in KS)
• Paradise is one of my favorite spots. Did not know they had a cream cheese brownie.
• I guess you can get a bunch at Sam's Club too

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• National Cherry Month
• Celebration of Chocolate Month
• National Hot Breakfast Month
• National Snack Food Month
• Potato Lover's Month
• Berry Fresh Month
• Canned Food Month
• Great American Pies Month
• Fiber Focus Month
• National Grapefruit Month
• Sweet Potato Month
• National Fondue Month
• National Heart Healthy Month
• Return Carts to the Supermarket Month
• Bake for Family Fun Month
• American Camp Week
• Boy Scout Anniversary Week
• Celebration of Love Week
• Children of Alcoholics Week
• Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
• Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week 
• International Friendship Week
• International Petroleum Week
• International Week of Black Women In the Arts
• Jell-O Week
• Just Say No to Power Point Week
• Lent
• Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
• National Green Week
• National Marriage Week USA
• National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
• Risk Awareness Week
• All the News That's Fit to Print Day
• Ash Wednesday
• Plimsoll Day
• Umbrella Day