Starbucks Black Bottom Cupcakes

By Gilmore

Ingredients

• Filling: 8 oz room temp cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• salt
• 1 small bag chocolate chips
• Batter: 3 cup flour
• 2 cup sugar 2/3 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 cup water
• 2/3 cup oil
• 2 Tbsp vinegar
• 2 tsp vanilla

Details

Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 35mins
Adapted from redrocksunrise.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Cream the cream cheese and sugar. Beat in egg and salt. Stir in chocolate chips Set the filling aside. Mix the cake batter. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla Beat well and fill cupcake liners 3/4 full with chocolate batter. Drop about a scant teaspoon of cream cheese mixture on the top of each in the middle. Bake in preheated 350 oven for approximately twenty minutes. You could halve the cake batter part if you wished and put a larger dollop of the cream cheese mixture on top of 18 cupcakes. Makes three dozen