Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Black and white homemade chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese and chocolate chip filling

These chocolate cream cheese cupcakes have a soft, from-scratch chocolate cupcake that bakes up around a sweet cream cheese and chocolate chip center. You may know them as black bottom cupcakes or black and white cupcakes, and they're one of our family's favorite chocolate desserts.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 20

Total Time 40

Servings cupcakes

Calories 173kcal

Author Jennifer Osterholt

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Filling

8 ounces cream cheese
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips may want extra to sprinkle on top

Chocolate Cupcakes

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese, egg, 1/3 cup sugar and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Beat well. Stir in chocolate chips and set aside.
In a mixing bowl stir together flour, 1 cup sugar, cocoa, 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla to the dry mixture. Beat until well combined.
Fill paper lined muffin cups 1/3 full of chocolate batter. Add a heaping teaspoon of cream cheese mixture in the center the chocolate batter in each cup.
Bake at 350°F for 20 - 25 minutes. Take extra care not to overbake. Makes two dozen.

Notes

Take extra care not to overbake, remove from oven when the edge of the cream cheese starts to turn light brown. At this point, a toothpick inserted into the chocolate cupcake could come out clean.

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