Black Bottom Cupcakes

• 1 12 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 14 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 12 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup water
• 13 cup canola oil
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)
• 1 egg
• 13 cup sugar
• 18 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 13 cup demerara sugar
• 13 cup sliced almonds
• 24 cupcake liners
• Pam cooking spray (or any non-stick spray, but NOT the one with flour in it)

1. Sift the first five ingredients together (flour, 1c sugar, cocoa, soda, 1/2 tsp salt).
2. In a separate bowl whisk together the water, oil, vinegar, & vanilla.
3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients & whisk together.
4. This will be a thin batter.
5. In a SEPARATE BOWL mix the cream cheese, egg, 1/3 c sugar, 1/8 tsp salt together.
6. Then stir in the chocolate chips.
7. If you don't want to use the cupcake liners then you MUST generously butter the cupcake pans.
8. Otherwise, drop in the paper liners & give a little spritz of Pam in each cupcake.
9. Fill each cup about 1/3 full with the chocolate batter, then drop a heaping teaspoon of the cream cheese mixture in the center.
10. Sprinkle with the demerara sugar.
11. (And sliced almonds if you like).
12. Bake at 350 until the "cheesecake center" is firm.

flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, water, canola oil, white vinegar, vanilla, cream cheese, egg, sugar, salt, semisweet chocolate chips, demerara sugar, almonds, cupcake liners, spray

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/black-bottom-cupcakes-348861 (may not work)