~ Black Bottom Cupcakes

Modified from:

Allrecipe

Description:
Rich and gooey chocolate cream cheese cupcakes.

Ingredients:
1 package (250g) cream cheese
1 egg
1/4 C white sugar
1 C mini chocolate chips
1 1/2 C flour
3/4 C white sugar
1/4 C cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 C warm water
1/3 C vegetable oil
1 tbps distilled vinegar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 160 deg. Line muffin tins with paper cups.
2. Beat cream cheese, egg, 1/4C sugar and 1/8tsp vanilla until light and fluffy. Do not overmix, stop when there are no more lumps. Stir in chocolate chips and set aside.
3. Mix wet ingredients (water, 3/4C sugar, distilled vinegar, vanilla and oil) together.
4. Whisk dry ingredients (flour, cocoa and baking soda) in a separate bowl. Make a well in the centre and stir in the pre-mixed wet ingredients till well-blended.
5. Fill muffin tins 1/3 full with the batter and top with a dollop of the cream cheese mixture in 2.
6. Bake in preheated oven for 30min till lightly browned, and cool on wire rack.

Remarks:
Batter produces good soft chocolate cupcake that rises well. Chocolate chips account partly for the gooey-ness, can be omitted. Cream cheese mixture is slightly too sweet, and its amount is too much. Perhaps to reduce sugar to 1 tbsp and reduce cream cheese and egg by half. The cupcake turned soggy after a day or two due to the cream cheese mixture, should try to reduce cream cheese portion.