Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes

My sweet and adorable cooking assistant and grand-daughter, Riley, helped me make some Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes that we found on Pinterest.  This recipe was pinned from The Capitol Baker.  The first step in these yummy treats is to mix up the batter.  Try not to eat it all, lol.

Next, get your adorable assistant to mix up the chocolate cake:

Once the cake is nice and chocolatey, pour the batter into cupcake liners and put a dollup of filling on top.

Bake them in the oven until they are moist and fantastic -

Here is the actual recipe from The Capitol Baker:

Chocolate Cream Cheese Surprise Cupcakes

adapted from Hershey's

(6 PointsPlus per serving)

Ingedients

for the filling:

8 oz. reduced fat cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

for the cupcake:

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

2/3 cup cocoa powder

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 cups water

2/3 cups vegetable oil

2 Tbsp white vinegar

2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions 

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Line muffin cups with paper liners. 

Prepare the filling- beat the cream cheese, sugar, egg and salt in a bowl until smooth and creamy.  Stir in the chocolate chips.

Stir together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.  Add the water, oil, vinegar and vanilla.  Beat for 3 minutes.  Fill muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Spoon 1 level Tbsp of the filling into the center of each cupcake. 

Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the cake portion comes out clean.  Let cool for 5 minutes in the pans.  Remove from pans to wire rack.  Cool completely.

These are very good and they make a wonderful presentation for your own family or if you are bringing them to a party.  Let me know if you try them and if you like them as much as we did.