Double Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins New Zealand Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 190°C Beat cream cheese & 2 tbsp sugar together & set aside.
• In a lrg bowl, combine flour, chocolate chips, 1/2 cup sugar, cocoa, baking powder & salt.
• Make a well in the centre. Pour in egg, butter & milk stirring till just moist.
• Spoon some chocolate batter into ea muffin tin & drop 1 tsp of cream cheese mixture on top. Then cover w/chocolate batter.
• Bake 15-20 min till springy to touch.

Steps:

• Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and cocoa powder in large bowl, set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF; grease muffin tins.
• In small bowl, make filling: beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar, almond extract and cornstarch until uniformly fluffy - set aside.
• In separate bowl, beat together milk, egg, oil and extract.
• Add milk mix to flour mix. Mix just until you no longer see any dry bits in the batter.
• Fill the bottoms of muffin cups with approximately 2 Tablespoons batter (about 1/3 full). Dab a spoonful of cream cheese filling in middle of each muffin cup, making sure filling isn't touching any of the sides. Cover up cream cheese with rest of batter, filling muffin cups until they are 3/4 full. Work as quickly as you can, so cream cheese doesn't sink to bottom.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and 2 Tbsp sugar until light and fluffy.
• Set aside.
• In a large bowl, stir together flour,1/2 cup sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
• Make a well in centre of dry ingredients.
• Combine egg, milk and oil.
• Add all at once to dry ingredients stirring just until moistened.
• (batter should be lumpy) Spoon about 2 Tbsp of batter into each greased muffin tray.
• Drop 1 tsp of cream cheese mixture on top and then more of the chocolate batter.
• Bake 375F degrees for 20 minutes.