Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese filling

If you love chocolate and cream cheese, here is the PERFECT combination. It's a little time intensive, but completely worth it.

8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (minis work really well)
1 chocolate cake mix

Step 1 Preheat & line

Preheat the oven to 350 and optional: line cupcake tins with cupcake papers.

Comments

[mary candy]

hummmm

[sarajo]

Is that a good hummmm or a bad one? :)

[mary candy]

a GOOD of course ;)

[sarajo]

Does anyone know how the voting process works for these contests? I was being asked how people who liked my instructable could vote on it and I have no clue.

[csadelman]

Do you have a picture of how the cupcake would look like on the inside, once it's baked? Thanks.

[sarajo]

You gave me an excuse to make them again as I didn't have a picture. :) Ideally, you'd hope the cream cheese was more in the middle, but here you go! Also, there's a difference in looks when it's fresh out of the oven like this one and when its been in the fridge.

[csadelman]

Thanks so much, Sarajo. Pictures does help. It looks like a crackly cookie, but in cupcake form. It does look delish!! I suppose the cream cheese makes the cookie more creamy? I will try to make this tomorrow. Thanks so much for your reply.

~ cherrios73

[sarajo]

Honestly, this second go round didn't go as well. First time around, I used a milk chocolate cake mix and the consistency was perfect. When the cupcakes were finished, the cream cheese filling was a perfect pocket in the middle. This second time around, all I had was a devils food cake mix. The consistency was not the same. It was much thicker and I even thinned it a bit.