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Black Bottomed Cupcakes Recipe
by David St. John

Black Bottomed Cupcakes

These delicious cupcakes travel well. There's no frosting to worry about.

Rating: 4/5
Avg. 4/5 1 vote
Prep time: United States American
Cook time: Servings: 20 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • Filling:
  • 1 pkg. (8 ozs.) cream cheese, softened
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (6 ozs.) semisweet chocolate chips
  • Cupcakes:
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 egg
  • 1 TBSP white vinegar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup baking cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Topping:
  • Sugar

Directions

  1. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, egg and salt until smooth. Stir in chips; set aside.
  2. For cupcakes, in a large bowl, beat the sugar, water, oil, egg, vinegar and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into egg mixture until blended.
  3. Fill paper-lined muffin cups half full with chocolate batter. Drop a heaping teaspoonful of cheese mixture in center of batter of each cupcake. Sprinkle with sugar.
  4. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to racks to cool completely. Refrigerate leftovers.