chocolate cream cheese muffins

Chocolate-Cheesecake-Muffin-4 after a two week hiatus from muffin mondays and the blog, i am back! well, school started and i needed a little time to adjust and make my schedule work for me. with a 5 unit science class and 2 online classes that requires a ton of reading and writing, i have my hands full. badminton and cooking has been my refuge during this crazy time. i am so glad that i still have some time to squeeze those in, if i didn't i would've already pulled all my hair out.

Chocolate-Cheesecake-Muffin-2knee-deep in unfinished essays and quizzes closing in on their deadline, i got some relief when an of bakerstreet.tv emailed me asking if i would be able to join them for muffin monday. i told her that i would be in a couple of weeks and i that i am excited to join them again. during that crazy week, i was looking forward to getting a recipe from an so i can at least have a little break from all the school work.

Chocolate-Cheesecake-Muffin-5 when i got this monday's recipe, i immediately thought of the starbucks chocolate muffin with cream cheese in the middle. i love that muffin. it's moist and sweet, and the cream cheese adds a hint or tartness to it. when i first tasted it a couple of years ago at the startbucks down the street, i came back repeatedly and devoured that muffin over and over again. then one day, it was gone and i haven't seen it since.

i thought i have forgotten about it, but this week's recipe brought it back. changing the recipe into this one was a no-brainer. when i made this last friday, i had the intention of bringing it to shawn's work together with the macaroni salad from raley's he requested. however, that did not happen since i baked it for 25 minutes instead of 12-15 minutes. after i realized that i over baked it, i was glad that i did not dump the left over batter yet. so i baked another batch, baked it for the right amount of time and it came out perfect. moist, sweet, a tinge of bitterness from the cocoa and some tartness from the cream cheese, i loved it.
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chocolate cream cheese muffins

ingredients:

275 g flour
75 g cocoa powder
1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
140 g sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
250 ml milk
2 tsp white vinegar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 oz oil

filling

6 0z cream cheese, room temperature
3 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

instructions:

1. preheat the oven to 350 F. line a muffin tin with 12 paper cases.

2. sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a large bowl, then stir in the sugar and salt.

3. beat the eggs, milk vinegar and vanilla extract together in another bowl, then stir in the oil and gently mix into the dry ingredients to make a loose, slightly lumpy mixture. Do not overmix or the muffins will be tough.

4. mix together the soft cream cheese, sugar and vanilla for the filling.

5. half-fill the paper cases with the muffin mixture, then top with a teaspoon of sweet cheese.

6. bake for 12-15 minutes until well risen and a toothpick comes out clean. remove from the tin and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

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26 comments:

  1. Chocolate and Cheesecake! Yumm! So glad you're baking with us Xai! Hope you continue to stay a part of the madness!

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  2. Chocolate and Cheesecake! Yumm! So glad you're baking with us Xai! Hope you continue to stay a part of the madness!

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  3. love, love, love chocolate! plus cheese? simply awesome!

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  4. Ang galing, it looks easy-peasy!

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  5. Mmm chocolate and cream cheese... is there something better on earth?

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  6. I love your adaptation of the recipe! Chocolate is a great choice to pair with a sweet cream cheese filling. I've never had the Starbucks muffins you mentioned, but now I wish I had! Guess I'll have to make your version to get the idea. :)

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  7. ooohh...cocoa in the batter...drooling at your photos. these definitely deserve a do-over on my side now, with everyone's amazing adaptations that beg to be tried...

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  8. Xai! I LOVE THIS! There's a cupcake we make up here on the east coast (and I'm sure elsewhere) that is almost exactly like this, only with the addition of a few chocolate chips in the cream cheese center. They're called Black Bottom Cupcakes and they're amazing, so I could imagine exactly how these tasted while reading your post!

    Good luck with your school work and welcome back to Muffin Monday. Muffins are essential to studying properly! :)

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  9. Whoa, chocolate with cheesecake centers... yum! I love your take on this week's muffins, Xai! So glad you were able to make it. Looking forward to what you'll come up with next week's recipe.

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  10. wow love that these are chocolate! that is so brilliant I'm going to try that next time!

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  11. it was quite easy and you can do it quite fast, as well. gawin mo na!

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  12. isn't it. i am obsessed with this combination. thanks for dropping by!!!

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  13. thank you, carrie.

    the starbucks version is really really good. it was like crack!

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  14. thank you, carrie.

    the starbucks version is really really good. it was like crack!

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  15. black bottom cupcakes? hmmm.. i think the starbucks one are black bottomed muffins. oh my, chocolate chips?! that's just crazy. so crazy, i'd do it. lol. 

    yes, muffins and cakes should have it's own separate food group. thanks aimee for dropping by.

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  16. black bottom cupcakes? hmmm.. i think the starbucks one are black bottomed muffins. oh my, chocolate chips?! that's just crazy. so crazy, i'd do it. lol. 

    yes, muffins and cakes should have it's own separate food group. thanks aimee for dropping by.

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  17. thank you, elena. it really is a must try.

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  18. thank you, elena. it really is a must try.

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  19. thanks, natassia. chocolate is just so addicting that i use it whenever i could.

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  20. thanks, natassia. chocolate is just so addicting that i use it whenever i could.

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  21. i was really looking forward to this week, too. since i missed the past couple of weeks, i made sure that i was going to be able to make a muffin this weekend. i needed it to keep my sanity intact.

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  22. i was really looking forward to this week, too. since i missed the past couple of weeks, i made sure that i was going to be able to make a muffin this weekend. i needed it to keep my sanity intact.

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  23. I wish I had these this morning instead of a cold, crappy bowl of cereals.  Love chocolate but love the thick blob of cream cheese in the center!  And love the lighting, too! :-)

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  24. thanks, jun. i had it the day after i baked them and they were still semi good. i forgot to store them properly so they kinda dried out. lol. i am still struggling with the lighting. well, more like the settings on my camera. haha. they have so much glare after i looked at them on the computer.

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  25. Thank you for posting this. I love the pictures too. I LOVE these muffins from Starbucks, so I am going to make them for my birthday since Starbucks doesnt make them anymore. 
    Thank you!

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