Description
Rich chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese and chocolate chip center. Also known as Black Bottom Cupcakes.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups white sugar
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ⅔ cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- ½ cup white sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- Mix together flour
- 2 cups sugar
- cocoa
- 1 teaspoon salt
- and baking soda in a large bowl. Stir in oil
- water
- vinegar
- and vanilla until blended. Pour mixture into the prepared muffin cups
- filling each 2/3 full.
- Beat together cream cheese
- egg
- 1/2 cup sugar
- and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl until light and fluffy. Stir in chocolate chips until incorporated. Drop a heaping teaspoonful of cream cheese mixture into each cupcake.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cupcake centers bounce back when gently pressed
- about 25 minutes. Allow to cool before serving.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 24