Rich chocolate surprise cupcakes with cream cheese and chocolate chip center. They are also known as black bottom cupcakes.
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- white sugar: 2 cups
- unsweetened cocoa powder: 0.5 cup
- salt: 1 tsp
- baking soda: 2 tsp
- vegetable oil: 0.66667 cup
- water: 2 cups
- vinegar: 2 Tbsp
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp
- cream cheese: 1 pack (8 ounce pack, softened)
- egg: 1 piece
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- semisweet chocolate chips: 1 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
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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.
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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.
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Bake in the preheated oven until cupcake centers bounce back when gently pressed, about 25 minutes. Allow to cool before serving.
