Description
I am not normally a cupcake fan, but this is my favorite cupcake recipe! I have made it over and over and people love it.
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix (such as Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe®)
- 1 ¼ cups water
- 4 eggs, divided
- ½ cup oil
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- ⅔ cup white sugar
- ¾ teaspoon Mexican vanilla extract
- ¾ cup miniature chocolate chips, or more to taste, divided
- 1 (16 ounce) container cream cheese frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- Combine cake mix
- water
- 3 eggs
- and oil together in a bowl using an electric mixer until batter is smooth
- about 2 minutes. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
- Blend cream cheese
- sugar
- 1 egg
- and vanilla extract together in a blender until cheesecake filling is smooth; stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Spoon about 1 tablespoon cheesecake filling into each cupcake.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean
- about 25 minutes. Cool cupcakes on a wire rack.
- Frost each cupcake with cream cheese frosting and sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over each cupcake.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 24