This is a recipe that my mom always used to make for us as kids for after school snacks. I have such fond memories of these cupcakes—they are so delicious! And very easy to make. I use cupcake mix to make it a little quicker, but you could certainly do everything from scratch.

Black Bottom Cupcakes
1 box chocolate cake mix–plus whatever ingredients necessary to make cupcakes from box (eggs, oil, water, etc…)
8 oz. cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
dash of salt
1 egg
1 cup chocolate chips
Mix cupcakes as directed on box until time to fill cups.
Mix together cream cheese, sugar, salt, egg, and chocolate chips.
Fill cupcake tins half full. Add 1 spoonful of cream cheese mix into cups.
Bake as directed on box.