Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cupcakes

Chocolate chip cheesecake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting will have everyone loving cupcakes, especially chocolate fans.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 45 mins
• Calories: 310 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups water
• ⅔ cup white sugar
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 (16 ounce) container cream cheese frosting
• 4 eggs, divided
• ½ cup oil
• 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix (such as Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe®)
• ¾ teaspoon Mexican vanilla extract
• ¾ cup miniature chocolate chips, or more to taste, divided

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.

Step 2

Combine cake mix, water, 3 eggs, and oil together in a bowl using an electric mixer until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.

Step 3

Blend cream cheese, sugar, 1 egg, and vanilla extract together in a blender until cheesecake filling is smooth; stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Spoon about 1 tablespoon cheesecake filling into each cupcake.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool cupcakes on a wire rack.

Step 5

Frost each cupcake with cream cheese frosting and sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over each cupcake.