Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cupcakes

Cream cheese filling inside the red velvet cupcake? Yes please!

Ingredients:

Filling-

8 OZ cream cheese softened

4 TB of granulated sugar

1 Egg beaten

1/2 tsp vanilla

Batter-

2 & 1/8 cups of flour

4 tsp cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup vegetable oil

1 & 1/3 cup of granulated sugar

2 tsp vinegar

2 eggs

1 TB red food coloring

1 tsp vanilla

6 TB sour cream

Preheat oven to 350

line 18 muffin cups with paper liners

Prepare filling first:

Beat together cream cheese and sugar

Add egg and vanilla and stir until smooth

set aside

Prepare the batter:

Combine together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt

In your standing mixer, add the oil, sugar, vinegar, egg, red food coloring, vanilla and sour cream

mix well, then add the flour mixture and mix until well blended

Add a heaping TB of batter into your lined muffin cups (which should fill it about 1/3 of the way)

Then add 1 TB of the cream cheese mixture

Then over that add a small dollop of batter (making a bulls eye pattern)

bake for 18-20 minutes

until a toothpick comes out clean

Then remove from the muffin pan and let cool on wire rack

Then enjoy with your friends and family.

or all by yourself... I am not judging... they are, after all red velvet ;)