Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes
These Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes are incredible! Made from scratch (with a cake mix option), cream cheese filled center and topped with the best chocolate frosting.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
Cake Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
Filling Ingredients:
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 cup chocolate chips.
Frosting Ingredients:
- 3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup chopped nuts Optional
Instructions
Cake Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the dry ingredients; beat in the liquid ingredients until smooth. Fill cupcake cups 1/2 full. Make filling and add one heaping tablespoon of filling into center of each cupcake.
- Bake in preheated 350 degree oven 25 - 30 minutes. Let cool before frosting.
Filling Instructions:
- Beat cream cheese, egg, sugar and salt until smooth. Stir in chips.
Frosting Instructions:
- In a large bowl combine sugar, cocoa, butter, milk and vanilla. Beat until blended. Frost cupcakes.
- This recipe made about 16 cupcakes, two of them were on the smaller size. So if you made them all smaller, it would probably make closer to 24.
Notes
You could make these with a chocolate cake mix and add the filling to the mix. You can also frost with bought cake frosting. I have done them both ways. They are good without the frosting, too.