This recipe for cream cheese-filled cupcakes features chocolate cake mix and a mixture of cream cheese and chocolate chips for a new twist on plain chocolate cupcakes! Frost cooled cupcakes with chocolate or cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
- cream cheese: 1 pack (8 ounce pack, softened)
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- egg: 1 piece
- semisweet chocolate chips: 1 cup
- chocolate cake mix: 1 pack (18.25 ounce pack)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) or the temperature recommended on the cake mix package. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
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Cream together cream cheese and sugar in a mixing bowl until smooth. Beat in egg until well blended, then stir in chocolate chips.
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Prepare chocolate cake mix according to package directions, but do not bake.
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Fill the prepared muffin cups 2/3 full with chocolate cake batter. Add 1 teaspoon cream cheese mixture to the center, then top with more chocolate cake batter.
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Bake in the preheated oven according to package directions for cupcakes.
