While doing some link surfing recently I came across quite a few recipes for Black Bottom Cupcakes. Being a sucker for anything involving chocolate and cream cheese, I had to give these a try!

The addition of the mini chocolate chips in the cream cheese mix adds a perfect texture to the “surprise” filling. The cream cheese was actually not as prominent as I would have liked it to be, and actually the next time I make these I’m going to play around with it a bit and add some sour cream to the mix and see how that works out.
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I am so trying this the next time I have some extra cream cheese in the fridge!
Flickr user Waldo Jaquith says that “after a decade of complaining about Bodo’s replacement of chocolate-chip cream cheese with strawberry cream cheese (ugh), I finally did something about it. Two packages of cream cheese, one 10 ounce bag of mini chocolate chips, and about two tablespoons of cocoa. Presto—dessert cream cheese.”
This would be amazing on bagels, of course. What else can you think of to put it on?

We felt like some brownies yesterday but I wanted to play with them a little bit first!
I just used a box mix (I like the Ghirardelli triple chocolate brownies) because I’m out of cocoa (the horror!), but before I put it into the oven I mixed one 8oz package of softened cream cheese, 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 egg together until smooth (if it’s too thick you can add a tablespoon or so of water or even coffee), then poured it over the top. Then I used a fork to pull the brownie batter up and around the …read more