Get ready for some cupcake heaven when you make this decadent 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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Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe
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Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes Recipe
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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So have you tried this Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cupcakes recipe yet?
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liz says
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.
Nicole Tucker says
I used to make these with my great-grandmother when I was a kid! We called them Black Bottom Muffins … so yummy!
CJ says
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!
a says
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.
Jessica Clarke says
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
Lisa says
These look and sound so good. I think I’ll make them for my family Christmas dinner. Thanks for sharing.
Maryanna Foster says
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
Maryanna Foster says
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
Heidi says
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
Carrie Phillips says
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
Heidi says
So glad to have you here, Carrie! Enjoy the cupcakes!! 😉
~ Heidi
Niqui says
Baked these for Christmas and they were a hit! Yummy!
Kelli says
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!
Heidi says
Amanda… ooh ~ let me know how they turn out using peanut butter chips!
~ Heidi
Heidi says
Jen ~ what a fun idea ~ Rudolph Cupcakes… I’ll have to try that!
~ Heidi
Amanda Farrish says
Yum-O! I think I’m gonna make these using peanut butter chips! Won’t THAT be fabulous????
Jen says
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!
Tina says
Wow! Those look so good, bookmarked the recipe, will try it soon, thanks.
K. Tracey says
These were terrific and so easy to make!
Heidi says
Elyse ~ thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad to hear that the gals at your women’s retreat loved the cupcakes!!
~ Heidi
Elyse says
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! 😉
Katina says
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.
Jennifer says
I grew up on these too! Starbucks used to make them as well, or at least they did in the DC area. So delicious!
egg yolk says
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
Brandy says
These look fantastic!
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Sherry3388 says
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!
Anna says
Those look delicious.
Sara says
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.
Kaley @ Cha-Ching on a Shoestring says
oops! my 1yo pushed submitted that last comment. it was from ME!
Anonymous says
Oh. how. I. love. these. I have never made them though…this may be the year!
Melissa says
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
Amy @ Finer Things says
Those look divine. What a fun treat for the whole family.
Sandra says
I am definately trying this one!
Jerri says
How yummy! I wish I had a couple of these right now. I'm definitely bookmarking this!
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Lisa @ Stop and Smell the Chocolates says
Nice and easy and yummy (and chocolate!) – I love it! Thanks for linking it up!
heartnsoulcooking says
What a YUMMY!!! cupcake filled with YUMMY!!! cheesecake. Sounds WONDERFUL!!!
Geri
LaVonne says
This looks very good and easy!Thanks for the recipe and the pictures. Love it! I linked it to my own Frugal Friday post.
Sherry says
Yummy! I make a cupcake kinda similar and it is super delish!
Kaylen says
Yum! I'm going to try these next week!!! They look delicious!
Heidi @ The Frugal Girls! says
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
Meghan says
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.
Alana Jo says
YUM!
The Hawkins says
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
Henrietta says
Oh yum! My daughter would love these, I think I'll make some for her to take in her lunch! Thanks!
Hoosier Homemade says
Those look great and I love that the recipe came from your Grandma! Thanks for joining in the fun at Cupcake Tuesday!
~Liz
crystalstone says
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!!