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Starbucks Black Bottom Cupcakes


Filling:

8 oz room temp cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
pinch salt
1 small bag chocolate chips

Cake Batter:

3 cup flour
2 cup sugar 2/3 cup cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cup water
2/3 cup oil
2 Tbsp vinegar
2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream the cream cheese and sugar. Beat in egg and salt. Stir in
chocolate chips Set the filling aside.

Mix the cake batter. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla. Beat well and fill cupcake liners 3/4 full with chocolate batter.

Drop about a scant teaspoon of cream cheese mixture on the top of each in the middle.

Bake in preheated 350 oven for approximately twenty minutes. You could halve the cake batter part if you wished and put a larger dollop of the cream cheese mixture on top of 18 cupcakes.

Makes three dozen