Here is a recipe that comes from my Grandma… her name was Gertrude. How sweet is that?!? We called her Grandma Trudy, and let me tell you… you’re going to love this recipe! Think chocolate decadence wrapped up in a cupcake! Mmm…
What You’ll Need:
- 1 box of Chocolate Cake Mix {and oil, eggs, etc. as required to prepare}
- Cream Cheese ~ one 8 oz. package, softened
- 1/3 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- Pinch of Salt
- Cupcake Holders
- 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
What You’ll Do:
Prepare box of Chocolate Cake Mix per instructions; then set aside.
In separate bowl, mix Cream Cheese, Egg, Sugar, and Salt. Then add in Chocolate Chips and stir…
Fill cupcake holders 2/3 full with prepared Chocolate Cake Mix. Then add one heaping teaspoon of Cream Cheese Filling into the center of each…
Bake 22 – 25 minutes at 350 degrees. These are delicious when you frost up with some chocolate or cream cheese frosting, too. YUM! Enjoy!!
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I have done something very similar to this but I used cherry chips instead of chocolate chips and then topped with cherry frosting! They are the best cupcakes EVER. I love the cream cheese filling so much. I've baked chocolate cookies and then put the frosting (minus the egg) in between two they are great home made Oreo's! I haven't tried it with all chocolate, that will be next!!! Keep up the great work!!
Those look great and I love that the recipe came from your Grandma! Thanks for joining in the fun at Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
Oh yum! My daughter would love these, I think I'll make some for her to take in her lunch! Thanks!
If you wanted to make these in a mini muffin pan would it work? Im not a big baker, but thought this would be a nice treat to take to work for everyone
YUM!
Wow. I was thinking about making my husband a chocolate chip cheesecake as a surprise before the holiday madness begins, but now I'm going to make these instead. They seem much easier and just as tasty.
Hawkins ~ I have honestly never tried making these in the mini-muffin pans. I'm sure it would work, but you'd just need a much smaller amount of the filling.
Enjoy!!
~ Heidi
Yum! I'm going to try these next week!!! They look delicious!
ok, now I'm going to have to pause right now and go make these, then continue my WFMW readings! lol.
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Yummy! I make a cupcake kinda similar and it is super delish!
This looks very good and easy!Thanks for the recipe and the pictures. Love it! I linked it to my own Frugal Friday post.
What a YUMMY!!! cupcake filled with YUMMY!!! cheesecake. Sounds WONDERFUL!!!
Geri
Nice and easy and yummy (and chocolate!) – I love it! Thanks for linking it up!
How yummy! I wish I had a couple of these right now. I'm definitely bookmarking this!
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I am definately trying this one!
Those look divine. What a fun treat for the whole family.
Just wanted to let you know that my daughter (13) and her friends made these at her slumber party and they were a HUGE hit! They had as much fun baking them as they did eating them!!
The only problem is I ended up eating FOUR of them, they were so good! Haha!
Thanks for the recipe!
Melissa
Oh. how. I. love. these. I have never made them though…this may be the year!
oops! my 1yo pushed submitted that last comment. it was from ME!
I made these in a mini cupcake pan and took them to a Christmas party – they were fantastic – it took about 11 min to bake them in the mini pan.
Those look delicious.
Love, Love, Love them! My two favorite ingredients : Chocolate and Cream cheese! lol
Made them, frosted them with a thin layer of cream cheese frosting and …oooo…my….gooooonnessss!!
Heavenly!!
Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!!
Happy New Year!!!
Ohh…and, P.S. :
.. incidentally….
I adopted nicknames for my mom (Mary) and my aunt (Veronica) years & years ago …
I call them Bertha & Gertrude…
So, I titled these cuppycakes "Gertrudies"
lololol
Thanks again!
These look fantastic!
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Brandy
I just baked these and were pretty good. not amazing, but definitely something quich and easy
to make em better, cook them less time and put in the fridge. they’ll be fudgy ! yummm
they are originally made in the mini muffin pans, i have been making them for over 20 years I’m from Maryland and we call them “Black bottoms”, the recipe is almost exactly what I have used except I add a little bit of vanilla to the cream cheese mixture, and I like the chocolate fudge cake mix (using real butter). They also freeze well to have at a later date.
Wanted to tell everyone that I made these cupcakes for a woman’s retreat last week. More then 100 woman attended and each brought a snack to share. There was A LOT of snacks. I set these out on Friday afternoon and they were gone by Friday evening. They were one of the few homemade things and they were a BIG hit! So easy to make too!
Thanks for making me look good for the weekend with a great dessert!
Elyse ~ thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad to hear that the gals at your women’s retreat loved the cupcakes!!
~ Heidi
These were terrific and so easy to make!
Wow! Those look so good, bookmarked the recipe, will try it soon, thanks.
These are SO good and SO easy! Thank you! They are delicious as is. However, we frosted some of ours with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting and then decorated them to make rudolph the red-nosed reindeer cupcakes. They turned out SO cute! Thank you!
Yum-O! I think I’m gonna make these using peanut butter chips! Won’t THAT be fabulous????
Jen ~ what a fun idea ~ Rudolph Cupcakes… I’ll have to try that!
~ Heidi
Amanda… ooh ~ let me know how they turn out using peanut butter chips!
~ Heidi
I’ve made these quite a few times and they are always a hit! As a side note, be careful when using the Betty Crocker SuperMoist Butter Recipe Chocolate mix. The batter is very light and you’ll find that you only need to fill the cupcake holders halfway with the chocolate batter (2/3 full leads to a mess!). I imagine this has to do with butter being used instead of oil, like in traditional cake mixes. They are still wonderful!
Baked these for Christmas and they were a hit! Yummy!
I just found your blog in the past month and started browsing through the recipes. Incidentally I bookmarked 5 or 6 of them!! I’m making these right now for a party
Thanks for sharing!!
Carrie
So glad to have you here, Carrie! Enjoy the cupcakes!!
~ Heidi
Heidi,
Just found this site today. The cup cakes look and sound wonderful. I am the food chairman for our Church Youth group, and our kids will love these. How do I print the recipe? I can’t find a print place.
I haven’t signed up yet, I will as soon as I send this post.
Thank You so much,
Maryanna
Hi Maryanna ~ so glad to have you here! To print the recipe, just click on the little printer icon at the bottom of the post ~ that will allow you to print an optimized version of the page.
~ Heidi
Thank You Heidi, guess I just didn’t look close enough. I’m 70 years old, and miss a few things along the way. I want to try these cup cakes they sound so good!! Thanks again.
In Christian Love,
Maryanna
These look and sound so good. I think I’ll make them for my family Christmas dinner. Thanks for sharing.
Have some in the oven now! I didn’t have chocolate cake, so I used a white cake and put chocolate chips in that too. lol
These are our “camping cupcakes” cause they don’t require frosting. They are the best in the world! Thanks for reminding me how good they are. I will have to make them again soon.
Just a tip, I tried making them in a 9×13 once, didn’t work cause the middle wasn’t done enough.
Say! this is the exact recipe i was looking for! My best friend moved away years ago andI had lost this recipe she gave me!!! These cupcakes ar deeeelish!