Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes
Decadent chocolate cupcakes filled with a creamy cream cheese and chocolate chip mixture. These moist cupcakes combine rich chocolate batter with a sweet cream cheese filling for the perfect indulgent dessert.
Ingredients
- •1 package cream cheese
- •1 large egg
- •2 tablespoons sugar
- •½ teaspoon salt
- •½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- •¼ cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
- •1 cup all purpose flour
- •3 tablespoons sifted unsweetened cocoa powder
- •¾ teaspoon baking powder
- •½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- •⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- •¾ cup sugar
- •½ cup unsalted butter
- •2 large eggs
- •1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- •3 ounces bittersweet chocolate
- •½ cup whole milk
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese in medium bowl. Add egg, sugar, salt, and vanilla and beat until almost smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.
10 min
- 2.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line standard muffin pan with 12 paper liners. Whisk first 5 ingredients in small bowl. Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until fluffy. Beat in eggs. Stir in vanilla and chocolate; beat at high speed 5 seconds. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Beat on high for 5 seconds to blend. Divide batter among cups, filling 1/3 full. Using tablespoon, hollow out center of each cupcake. Place 1 heaping tablespoonful cream cheese filling in each center.
15 min
- 3.
Bake cupcakes until toothpick inserted into center (but not cream cheese filling) comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Remove from pan; cool completely on rack.
30 min
