Black Bottom Cupcakes – We Love God!

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Cake	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Flour
1	c	Water
1	t	Salt
1/3	c	Oil
1	t	Baking soda
1	T	Vinegar
1	c	Sugar
1	t	Vanilla
1/4	c	Cocoa
8	oz	Cream cheese
1/2	c	Sugar
1		Egg
1/8	t	Salt
1	c	Semi-sweet chocolate morsels

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine in small bowl - cream cheese, egg, salt, sugar and chocolate
morsels.  Mix well and set aside.  Sift together in large bowl - flour,
salt, baking soda, sugar, cocoa.  Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla.
Beat with electric mixer well.  Fill small muffin tins lined with
muffin papers 1/2 full with  chocolate batter.  Top each with 1/2 tsp.
cheese filling.  Bake  approximately 18 min.  REC.FOOD.RECIPES ARCHIVES
/CAKES  From rec.food.cooking archives.  Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe  Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. #A.W. Tozer”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 283 Calories From Fat: 117 Total Fat: 13.3g Cholesterol: 36.3mg Sodium: 391.1mg Potassium: 77.6mg Carbohydrates: 38.8g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 25.7g Protein: 3.6g

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