Cream Cheese Brownies

1 cup butter or margarine
4 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
Cream Cheese Filling (recipe below)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup nuts (optional)

Cream Cheese Filling
2 packages (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 large egg
Beat all 4 ingredients until smooth.

HEAT oven to 350. Grease bottom and sides of 13x9 pan.

MELT butter and chocolate in saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently, remove from heat; Cool for 5minutes.

MAKE cream cheese filling, set aside.

BEAT chocolate mixture with sugar, vanilla and eggs in a large bowl with mixer; beat in flour and salt.

SPREAD 1¾ cup of the chocolatemixture in the pan; Then put the cream cheese filling over it; Then put the rest of the chocolate mixture over the cream cheese filling and spread.

BAKE for 45-50 minutes.

STORE covered in the refrigerator. (They are so much better cold!!)