Absolutely Tastalicious Muffin Recipe

I recently found this recipe for Blackbottom Muffins and if you have been looking for THE muffin recipe then I, in all honesty believe that THIS IS IT! Search no more for you have just obtained the recipe of a lifetime!


I have tried many a muffins but this one is by far the best and it will be part of my repertoire for a long, long time to come and I am hoping to pass this on to my kids in the future. It is that good I tell you.

Best of all it is so easy to make and the ingredients are all easily available and you can have these in the oven and ready to eat in a few hours. If you are the sort who cannot wait like me, then you can have them the moment they come out of the oven!

The reason they are called "BlackBottom" is probably because the bottom part of the recipe calls for a chocolate muffin mix and the tops of these muffins is a dollop of a glorious mix of cream cheese and chocolate chips. Can it get any better than this? Chocolate and cream cheese - it is a marriage truly made in heaven I tell you.

Best of all, you can use store-bought chocolate muffin mix and then add the cream cheese mixture on top of that. Thus your work is cut in half and this in turn speeds up the process of getting these incredibly chewy morsels into your mouth.

Here is the recipe for all to enjoy:

Blackbottom Muffins

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda (I always use more, so this should read "a HEAPING teaspoon")
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup white sugar (I substitute with soft brown sugar - firmly packed)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/3 cup white sugar (again firmly packed soft brown sugar)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips (for want of chocolate chips one day, I reached into the belly of my fridge and found some white chocolate - I chopped them roughly and added them which produced a wonderfully rich muffin...sinful indeed!)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12 cup muffin pans with paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. Set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12 cup muffin pans with paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. Set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, beat together the cream cheese, egg, 1/3 cup sugar and salt. Stir in the chocolate chips.
4. Fill muffin cups 1/3 full with chocolate batter, then top with a heaping tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture. Bake cupcakes in preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until done.

There will be lots of the cream cheese mixture left over so I sometimes bake a double batch of muffins and use small teaspoonfuls of cheese mixture in them. If there are any leftover muffins (which I doubt) then ziplock and chuck them in the freezer and pop them in the oven when you need a fix - guaranteed to still taste like they were freshly baked!

Happy Baking!