Black Bottom Cake/Cupcakes

This has to be one of my many favorite cakes :o)  I love this!!  It's so yummy and moist.  When we were pastoring at our first Church in PA, a very good friend of mine, Margie Young, gave me this recipe.  She was such a wonderful cook.

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After mixing the chocolate part of the cake and pouring it in the pan you spread around the chocolate chip cream cheese mixture.

After the cake is cooled you put that delicious homemade Cream Cheese Icing on top!

And then you cut it and indulge!!!  This is another one of those goodies that doesn't have any calories!!  hahahaha!!  With all the cream cheese in the cake and icing there are 1200 calories alone without any of the other ingredients.  Oh, no!!!  But that doesn't lessen the goodness of it!!

Recipe for Black Buttom Cake/Cupcakes

Cream cheese filling

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1 egg

1/3 cup sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 ~ 12 oz. bag chocolate chips

Mix the first four ingredients together well.  Stir in chocolate chips.  Set aside.

Cake part

1 1/2 cup flour

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon vinegar

Put flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and baking soda together in a bowl.  Stir.  Add 1 cup water, oil, vanilla and vinegar.  Mix together well.  If you want to make this into a cake, spray a 9 x 13 baking pan.  Pour chocolate batter into pan.  Then take the cream cheese filling mixture and put dabs of it around the cake batter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 35 ~ 40 minutes or until done.  Cool cake; put icing (recipe below) on cake and enjoy!!  OR if you want to make into cupcakes, fill cupcake papers 1/2 full of chocolate cake batter and put a teaspoonful of the cream cheese filling on top.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until done.

Cream Cheese Icing

12 oz cream cheese, softened

4 tablespoons butter, softened

1 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar

pinch of salt

Combine cream cheese and butter; mix until creamy.  Add confectioner's sugar and salt; mix well.  Carefully put icing on cake ~ and don't eat too much of it as it is super sweet :o)  Enjoy!!