Green Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting – perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! Delicious homemade brownies topped with cream cheese frosting. Super easy to make and even easier to eat!!! Chocolate chips, butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, green food coloring, cream cheese, and powdered sugar. I ate WAY too many of these things! A MUST for your St. Paddy’s Day celebrations!
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St. Paddy’s Day is around the corner. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with these super yummy Green Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting. What are Green Velvet Brownies? They are basically Red Velvet Brownies that are green instead of red! They might look a little weird, but they taste AMAZING! I am not really a sweets person, but I ate WAY too many of these brownies. The frosting is incredible and the brownie is one of the best I’ve ever eaten. It is a little fudgy and a little cakey – the best of both worlds.
How to Make Brownies from Scratch
These Green Velvet Brownies are SUPER easy to make. Start with melting some chocolate chips and butter. Let the chocolate cool slightly and then add sugar. Next, whisk in eggs. Finally, add flour, baking soda, vanilla, and green food coloring. Pour the batter into a foil-lined 9-inch square baking pan and pop in the oven.
Let the brownies cool and then make the cream cheese frosting. The frosting is dangerously easy to make. Simply mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Spread the frosting over the brownies and enjoy.
I suggest lining your baking pan with foil or parchment paper. This will make it easier to get the brownies out of the pan. You can make these brownies a day in advance and store them in the refrigerator until ready to serve. I sprinkled the brownies with some green and white sprinkles to make them more festive!
Green Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
This is the kind of dessert that calls to me in the middle of the night. “Eat me!” I’m glad St. Patrick’s day is only once a year. I can’t have these brownies in the house. I eat WAY too many of these things! You can’t just have brownies for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Here are a few of our favorite recipes to complete your St. Paddy’s Day party:
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Green Velvet Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
Brownies
- ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 (1-oz) bottle green liquid food coloring
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅛ tsp salt
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, softened
- 3 Tbsp butter, softened
- 1½ cups powdered sugar
- ⅛ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line bottom and sides of a 9-inch square pan with aluminum foil, allowing 2 to 3 inches to extend over sides; lightly grease foil.
- Microwave chocolate chips and butter in a large microwave-safe bowl at HIGH 1-½ to 2 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals.
- Whisk in sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, whisking just until blended after each addition. Gently stir in flour, green food coloring, baking powder, vanilla, and salt. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake for 44 to 48 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs. Cool completely on a wire rack (about 2 hours).
- For the frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and salt, beating until blended. Stir in vanilla.
- Lift brownies from pan, using foil sides as handles; gently remove foil. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting on top of brownies, and cut into 16 squares. Garnish, if desired.
Notes:
Steph
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Can this recipe be doubled and baked in a 10×14 pan? Cooking for a crowd!
yes
If doubled and cooking in a 10×14, how long would I bake for?
if you make these in a 9×13 would you use glass or metal cuz I have both and use both but want your advise
I would use the metal pans
If I double the recipe does it need 8 eggs. Seems like a lot.
If you double the recipe, you would need double the ingredients.
I asked if you could make in cupcake liners? How much to put in cupcake liners & how long to bake? Do you spray the liners first?
I have never baked them in cupcake liners, so I can not say how long to bake them.
This recipe makes the best brownies – everyone loves them. So chewy and delicious. Next time I make them though, I would make them in a 9×13 pan as the 9″ square pan made them too thick/hard to eat. Otherwise, wouldn’t change a thing!
Do you use salted butter or unsalted? Just wondering since salt is added in both the brownie and frosting recipe.
I always bake with unsalted butter.
Hi Steph, looks like a great recipe! Just curious, maybe an obvious answer… Would I be able to change the food color to red or blue, etc…, as long as it’s the liquid form, would the recipe still work? My thoughts are maybe red for Valentines Day?
Absolutely – here is the red velvet version: https://www.plainchicken.com/red-velvet-brownies/
I was wondering if I need to adjust the recipe at all, if I wanted to not use the food coloring? BTW I did make them green the first time I made them for St. Patrick’s Day (DELICIOUS). But now I want them year round
I don’t think any adjustments would need to be made.
Made these today for my kiddos St. Patty’s day dessert. I cut them in a shamrock shape so I tasted them …they are delicious! I use kelly green gel food coloring about 2 decent drops in the batter and they are the perfect green!! Thank you for sharing the recipe looking forward to the kids enjoying them!
SO fun! Glad they were a hit!
If I double the recipe, do I put the brown batter in a 9x 13 pan or two 9” square pans.
Either is just fine. I usually just use a 9×13-inch pan.
Thank you. I made these for a Sr.s. Group today. They were loved.
Is it normal for the batter to look kinda clumpy?
Not really
Tried this recipe for St Paddy’s Day tomorrow! Added a whole gel tube of green food coloring. Brown batter was olive green in the mixing and never really turned green. Bummer!
The recipe calls for 1 bottle of LIQUID food coloring, not gel food coloring
Help! I followed the recipe and my brownies got really big then fell flat and are thin and crispy like a crumbly cookie 🍪🙃what did I do wrong???
The only thing I can think of is that you overmixed the batter.
Maybe, anyways the batter taste amazing;)
You mention salt in the icing directions but don’t see it listed in ingredients. How much do you add and is it necessary?
1/8 teaspoon – you can leave it out if you prefer
Would you double this recipe to use a 9×13 pan?
yes
Could you make these into cupcake liners?
I am sure that you could. I have never baked them in cupcake liners, so I can not say how long to bake them.