Marble Bars

This recipe was from an ancient piece of notebook paper where Mom had copied down several recipes. They were okay. Imagine Texas sheet cake minus the frosting, plus a cream cheese swirl. They really weren't very chocolaty, and the cream cheese taste kind of got lost. The only change I made was that the recipe called for unsweetened baker's chocolate, and I substituted cocoa. I rate it a three star recipe. It was fine, but I don't know that I'll ever make them again.

The one awesome thing about these bars is that I thought I did an excellent swirling job, especially in that middle section. If you ever need to have a swirl in your dessert, let me know, and I'll come help you out.

Marble Bars

1/2 c margarine
3/4 c water
1 1/2 oz unsweetened chocolate squares (1 1/2 squares)
2 c flour
2 c sugar
1 t soda
1/2 t salt
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 c sour cream

8 oz cream cheese
1/3 c sugar
1 egg

6 oz chocolate chips

Bring the margarine, water, and chocolate to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in flour, sugar, soda and salt. Add eggs, sour cream. Mix well. Pour in greased 15'' x 11'' jelly roll pan.

Combine cream cheese, sugar and egg. Spoon over chocolate batter. Cut through with knife to marble.

Sprinkle chocolate chips on top.

Bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes.


Now that I typed the recipe in, I see that I missed the whole chocolate chip section when I made these things. Maybe that would add in some richness to the bars, but it would also add little hard chunks of chocolate. It definitely needs something else, though. Maybe some frosting would help.