Black Bottom Cupcakes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup canola oil
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup demerara sugar
• 1/3 cup sliced almonds
• 24 cupcake liners
• pam cooking spray (or any non-stick spray, but not the one with flour in it)

Recipe

• 1 sift the first five ingredients together (flour, 1c sugar, cocoa, soda, 1/2 tsp salt). in a separate bowl whisk together the water, oil, vinegar, & vanilla. add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients & whisk together. this will be a thin batter.
• 2 in a separate bowl mix the cream cheese, egg, 1/3 c sugar, 1/8 tsp salt together. then stir in the chocolate chips.
• 3 if you don't want to use the cupcake liners then you must generously butter the cupcake pans. otherwise, drop in the paper liners & give a little spritz of pam in each cupcake.
• 4 fill each cup about 1/3 full with the chocolate batter, then drop a heaping teaspoon of the cream cheese mixture in the center.
• 5 sprinkle with the demerara sugar. (and sliced almonds if you like).
• 6 bake at 350 until the "cheesecake center" is firm.