Cream Cheese Chocolate Cupcakes

Cream Cheese Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredient:

3 cups flour

2 cups sugar

2 tsp. soda

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups water

1 cup oil

2 Tbsp. vinegar

2 tsp. vanilla

Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl. Add water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Mix together until smooth. Here’s a tip for if you’re in a hurry… use a cake mix instead of mixing the cupcake batter from scratch. Fill cupcake papers 1/2 full. I made a note that says I used my biggest scoop for the cake part (which would be the Pampered Chef large scoop) and a heaping regular spoon for the filling. Put 1 rounded teaspoonful of filling on top of each one. Bake at 350 for 22 minutes. The recipe says 20-25 min, but 22 min was perfect for my oven. Makes 34 cupcakes.

FILLING:

1 8oz pkg cream cheese

1 egg

Pinch of salt

1/3 cup sugar

1 cup chocolate chips

Beat cream cheese, egg, sugar, and salt until smooth. Stir in chocolate chips.

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You don’t need to drop the filling in all neat and stuff. Let them have some character. Imperfect perfection.

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They come out of the oven all puffed up like this. ^^^

And then as they cool, they kind of go down a bit in the middle.

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and enjoy !