(Food) Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcake

About two months ago, I invited a couple of friends to our house so we could bake this recipe at home. One of them finished a baking class so I thought I could get some tips from her regarding techniques to ingredients tweaking. Thank goodness I asked her to come because the end product of this revised recipe was delicious, moist and savory.

Here's the link for the original recipe and below is our slightly tweaked version.

Mmmm, yum!

 Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcake

Ingredients

1 pack cream cheese, softened
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed 
1 pinch salt
1 (6 ounce) chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

In a small bowl, combine first four ingredients.
Add chocolate chips and set aside.
Combine flour, cocoa and salt in a medium bowl.
In a large bowl, mix milk and vinegar then stir to curdle milk.
Add oil and vanilla to the liquid mixture.
Mix flour mixture into the liquid ingredients slowly until combined thoroughly.
Fill muffin tins, lined with paper cups 1/2 full with this mixture.
Drop a large spoonful of cheese mixture on top.
Bake at 350F for 20 to 25 minutes.

These were seriously so yummy that I had to stop myself from eating a lot. And the cupcakes stayed moist even after a few days. You honestly don't have to worry about making a huge batch because these cupcakes keeps well in the refrigerator. However, for those with sweet tooth out there, you might find the sweetness of the cupcake bread a bit lacking but the cream cheese mixture does compensate for that so you can add more of it as you desire.

The more, the merrier!

Happy baking and until next time!

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(Food) - Cheese Cupcake Recipe

I was finally able to bake cupcakes yesterday after postponing for a few days. Stupid me, I thought I had baking powder when what I had was baking soda so I had to ask the hubby to go on a grocery run. It was my first time to make cupcakes and they turned out better than expected. They were moist on top, not too sweet, adequately cheesy and had a welcome orange-y taste. They also tasted yummy after taking food porn-y pictures of them on my phone.

I got the recipe from this website website so you can also try them for yourselves.

Cheese Cupcake

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups flour, sifted
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1/2 tsp orange extract
• 8 ounces sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup Velveeta cheese, shredded (I used quickmelt cheese as an alternative)
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs and orange extract.
3. Pour in flour mixture in thirds, adding half of the sweetened condensed milk in between (beginning and ending with flour mixture).
4. Add in grated Velveeta cheese and blend well.
5. Put mixture in muffin cups, 3/4 full only.
6. Top with grated cheddar cheese.
7. Bake in 350F oven for 20-25 minutes.
8. Cupcake stays moist for 1 week in room temperature (covered in tight lid container).

Top and center on a bright placemat

Toasted at the bottom, just how I like it

Charmingly crumbly (my friend said I can replace white for brown sugar to avoid this)

I plan to post more about my foray into cooking, DIY and other mom things so I hope you'll stay tuned for that. See you soon!

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