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Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe! {Black Bottom Cupcake}

November 30, 2009 By Heidi 46 Comments

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Get ready for some cupcake heaven when you make this decadent Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe!

Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe

Craving cupcakes??  Here’s a delicious Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe that comes from my Grandma… her name was Gertrude. How sweet is that?!?

We called her Grandma Trudy, and these were a bit of a Christmas specialty of hers!  They’re also known as Black Bottom Cupcakes, and let me tell you… you’re going to love this recipe!

Here’s the best part… you’ll only need 4 easy ingredients to create these heavenly cupcakes!  How easy is that?

Think rich, chocolate decadence wrapped up in a cupcake!  Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Filled Cupcakes for the win!  Mmm…

Here’s what you’ll need…

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Cameron writes: “Taste great.”

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Neta writes: “Best cupcakes ever.”

Inez writes: “Topped with homemade cream cheese frosting.” 😋

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Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe

Get ready for some cupcake heaven when you make this decadent Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time22 mins
Total Time32 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake mix, chocolate cupcakes, cupcake
Servings: 24
Author: The Frugal Girls

Ingredients

For Cupcakes:

  • 15.25 ounces Devil's Food Cake Mix {1 box}
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 1/4 cups Water

For the Filling:

  • 8 ounces Cream Cheese softened
  • ⅓ cup Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Instructions

  • 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. ENJOY!!

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Comments

  1. liz says

    February 5, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    Totally made these with my daughter first cupcakes ive ever made they were amazing added a cream cheese strawberry frosting on them they were good next time ill probably not use frosting cause to sweet but they were so good.

    Reply
  2. Nicole Tucker says

    March 3, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    I used to make these with my great-grandmother when I was a kid! We called them Black Bottom Muffins … so yummy!

    Reply
  3. CJ says

    February 1, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    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!

    Reply
  4. a says

    December 3, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    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.

    Reply
  5. Jessica Clarke says

    December 3, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    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

    Reply
  6. Lisa says

    December 3, 2011 at 11:19 am

    These look and sound so good. I think I’ll make them for my family Christmas dinner. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  7. Maryanna Foster says

    June 24, 2011 at 5:59 am

    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

    Reply
  8. Maryanna Foster says

    June 23, 2011 at 10:31 am

    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

    Reply
    • Heidi says

      June 23, 2011 at 10:37 pm

      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

      Reply
  9. Carrie Phillips says

    May 24, 2011 at 11:28 am

    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

    Reply
    • Heidi says

      May 24, 2011 at 6:36 pm

      So glad to have you here, Carrie! Enjoy the cupcakes!! 😉

      ~ Heidi

      Reply
  10. Niqui says

    December 27, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    Baked these for Christmas and they were a hit! Yummy!

    Reply
  11. Kelli says

    December 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    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!

    Reply
  12. Heidi says

    December 19, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    Amanda… ooh ~ let me know how they turn out using peanut butter chips!

    ~ Heidi

    Reply
  13. Heidi says

    December 19, 2010 at 7:52 pm

    Jen ~ what a fun idea ~ Rudolph Cupcakes… I’ll have to try that!

    ~ Heidi

    Reply
  14. Amanda Farrish says

    December 19, 2010 at 12:44 am

    Yum-O! I think I’m gonna make these using peanut butter chips! Won’t THAT be fabulous????

    Reply
  15. Jen says

    December 18, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    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!

    Reply
  16. Tina says

    December 16, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Wow! Those look so good, bookmarked the recipe, will try it soon, thanks.

    Reply
  17. K. Tracey says

    October 20, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    These were terrific and so easy to make!

    Reply
  18. Heidi says

    October 11, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    Elyse ~ thanks for sharing!

    I’m so glad to hear that the gals at your women’s retreat loved the cupcakes!!

    ~ Heidi

    Reply
  19. Elyse says

    October 11, 2010 at 6:49 am

    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! 😉

    Reply
  20. Katina says

    May 22, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Jennifer says

      June 22, 2012 at 7:01 am

      I grew up on these too! Starbucks used to make them as well, or at least they did in the DC area. So delicious!

      Reply
  21. egg yolk says

    February 28, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    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

    Reply
  22. Brandy says

    February 9, 2010 at 10:14 am

    These look fantastic!
    You might like our new blog
    from blah to ta-daa we do a recipe mcklinky each week too! come check it out.

    From Blah to Ta-daa
    Brandy

    Reply
  23. Sherry3388 says

    December 26, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    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!

    Reply
  24. Anna says

    December 24, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Those look delicious.

    Reply
  25. Sara says

    December 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    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.

    Reply
  26. Kaley @ Cha-Ching on a Shoestring says

    December 12, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    oops! my 1yo pushed submitted that last comment. it was from ME!

    Reply
  27. Anonymous says

    December 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Oh. how. I. love. these. I have never made them though…this may be the year!

    Reply
  28. Melissa says

    December 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    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

    Reply
  29. Amy @ Finer Things says

    December 5, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    Those look divine. What a fun treat for the whole family.

    Reply
  30. Sandra says

    December 5, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    I am definately trying this one!

    Reply
  31. Jerri says

    December 5, 2009 at 5:30 am

    How yummy! I wish I had a couple of these right now. I'm definitely bookmarking this!

    Hope to see you December 14-18 for the Holly Bloggy Christmas Bash! We'll have events all week, including a recipe linky on Thursday, Dec. 17. And we'll have prizes too! Check out my blog for more details!

    Reply
  32. Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates says

    December 4, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Nice and easy and yummy (and chocolate!) – I love it! Thanks for linking it up!

    Reply
  33. heartnsoulcooking says

    December 4, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    What a YUMMY!!! cupcake filled with YUMMY!!! cheesecake. Sounds WONDERFUL!!!
    Geri

    Reply
  34. LaVonne says

    December 4, 2009 at 2:50 am

    This looks very good and easy!Thanks for the recipe and the pictures. Love it! I linked it to my own Frugal Friday post.

    Reply
  35. Sherry says

    December 3, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    Yummy! I make a cupcake kinda similar and it is super delish!

    Reply
  36. Kaylen says

    December 2, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Yum! I'm going to try these next week!!! They look delicious!

    Reply
  37. Heidi @ The Frugal Girls! says

    December 2, 2009 at 11:48 am

    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

    Reply
  38. Meghan says

    December 2, 2009 at 12:19 am

    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.

    Reply
  39. Alana Jo says

    December 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    YUM!

    Reply
  40. The Hawkins says

    December 1, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    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

    Reply
  41. Henrietta says

    December 1, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Oh yum! My daughter would love these, I think I'll make some for her to take in her lunch! Thanks!

    Reply
  42. Hoosier Homemade says

    December 1, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Those look great and I love that the recipe came from your Grandma! Thanks for joining in the fun at Cupcake Tuesday!
    ~Liz

    Reply
  43. crystalstone says

    November 30, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    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!!

    Reply

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