Cream Cheese Filled Cupcakes

Mary Close's Note:

As these bake, the cheese mixture is surrounded by cake.

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 12 cupcakes

• 1 (18 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
• 2 -3 eggs
• oil
• water
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 (6 ounce) package chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven and prepare cake mix according to box directions. Grease and flour cupcake pan and and fill cups 2/3 full. Cream softened cream cheese together with sugar. Beat in egg and salt. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop one rounded teaspoon of cheese mixture into each cup. The cake will bake up around the cheese. Bake as directed for cupcakes on the cake mix box. Cool and frost with desired frosting or powdered sugar.

Reviews

[Genie In A Bottle]

Very good recipe! I wanted a chocolate filling so I added 1 Tbs cocoa & increased the sugar to 1/2 cup. Thanks so much for sharing, Mary!

[cmartcookie]

Wow. There was WAY too much filling for the cupcakes! I got 18 standard size cupcakes (I use 1/4 cup batter per cupcake paper). Because there was so much filling, I thought certainly there must have been an error - like maybe I should have used a "rounded" teaspoon or "heaping" teaspoon of the filling instead of about a regular size measuring spoon teaspoon. So, I went back and put 2 measuring spoon teaspoons into each cupcake. Threw the remainder down the garbage disposal. Two minutes left of bake time - and the cream cheese did not sink to the bottom. I wonder if a person made mini cupcakes whether the 1 tsp. of filling would sink to the bottom... 2 tsp. of filling is too much for regular size cupcakes. I wouldn't even think 1 tsp. of filling would be much "filling" in a regular size cupcake. I'm sure they'll taste fine, but this wasn't the "look" I was aiming for.

[Dying2Live]

Delicious I made these and topped them with Chocolate Frosting (No Eggs or Milk Needed)