Black Bottom Cupcakes
 
 
Ingredients
  • ¾ pound (1½ 8 oz packages) cream cheese
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1¾ cups flour
  • ¾ cup Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder (or regular cocoa powder)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅔ cup canola oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin tin with 18 cupcake liners
  2. FIrst you will make the cheesecake portion. Begin by beating the cream cheese and ½ cup of sugar together thoroughly in a medium sized bowl.
  3. Add the egg to the mixture and beat well.
  4. Mix in the miniature chocolate chips and set aside.
  5. Next you will make the chocolate cake portion. In a large bowl, beat together the oil and sugar.
  6. Add the buttermilk and the vanilla and mix well.
  7. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt and mix well. The batter will be very thick.
  8. Spoon the chocolate batter into the cupcake liners so that the cups are about ⅔ full.
  9. Spoon a scoop of the cheesecake batter on top of the chocolate batter.
  10. Bake for 30 - 35 minutes at 350 degrees until a toothpick comes out of the cupcakes clean.
  11. Cool and serve.
Recipe by Bombshell Bling at https://www.bombshellbling.com/black-bottom-cupcakes/