Pour your favorite brownie batter into a greased pan. Fill a piping bag with cream cheese mix (for a 9″ square pan: 8oz box of cream cheese, an egg, sugar and perhaps a flavoring or extract). Pipe thick lines of cream cheese filling across the length of the pan. Drag a knife through each line of cream cheese, alternating direction with each stroke. Voila!
Food styling requires a critical amount of pure invention and creative problem solving. Check out the ‘skeleton’ that remained after I dismantled a cookie diorama I photographed for Eleni’s New York. Museum wax is a staple in any food-stylist’s kit, but absolutely anything available is fair game when I’m working: here I used fake ice cubes, ramekins, straight pins, a paintbrush, and metal picture hanging hardware to support the cookies.
Flash In a Pan 