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Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes

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Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes are a chocolate confection that dreams are made of. A chocolate outside with a cream cheese middle, Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes are the prefect treat for holidays and everyday!
Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes

So, back in the day. Waayyyy back in the day, my great grandmother, Mama Driver, held all of the family holiday gatherings at her house. It was this tiny little house that seemed to magically expand as the number of people who showed up grew and grew. She had this tiny kitchen with red counter tops and an old Frigidaire from the 50’s that held enough food for 30 people at all times. The house had wood paneling and a Wurlitzer organ ( on which Mama taught me a few carnival tunes). In the backyard was a concrete patio covered in Astroturf and an old school brick barbecue that I never saw anyone use. Not once.

Easter was my favorite. There was always a giant egg hunt, and not the plastic eggs. These were real eggs. The ones you had just spent 2 hours coloring in the 1950’s kitchen. The older kids got to hide them- they were ruthless- and the younger kids had to search for them. It took forever, but the sense of accomplishment as I gazed down upon my full rabbit/milk carton Easter basket was immense and a feeling I will never forget.

Of course, like any family gathering, there was a lot of food. But there is one dish, one dessert, that I can remember vividly enjoying from the time that I was a small child. It is my Great Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes. I can’t tell you much about my Aunt Linda. I haven’t seen her in 20 years. She was funny, with short, gray hair and she smiled a lot, and she made these cupcakes. The cupcakes I have begged for since I was about 4 or 5. The very cupcakes that I could describe to you in great detail from memory! The cupcakes that were at every single family gathering until the day Mama Driver went into a nursing home.

So it is only natural that I want to introduce my own children to these fantastic cupcakes. So we all piled in the kitchen to whip up a batch. Fun was had by all. There was whisk licking…

and there was the tell-tale signs of a budding food photographer

and of course there was chocolate all over faces and hands.

It was my kind of day.

 

Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes

Blackbottom Cupcakes

Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes

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Servings: 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

Filling:

  • 6 oz . cream cheese softened
  • 1/3 c . sugar
  • 1/8 t . salt
  • 6 oz . semi-sweet chocolate chips

Cake:

  • 1 c . sugar
  • 1 1/2 c all purpose flour
  • 1/4 c . cocoa
  • 1 t . baking soda
  • 1/2 t . salt
  • 1 c . water
  • 1/3 c . oil
  • 1 T vinegar

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Whisk together cream cheese, sugar and salt until everything is well blended.
  • Stir in chocolate chips. Set bowl aside.
  • In a separate bowl, sift cocoa, flour, sugar, salt and baking soda together.
  • In a small bowl, mix together oil, water and vinegar together. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk together well, until all lumps are gone.
  • Line muffin pan with baking cups. Fill each cup about half full with cake batter. Then drop 1 Tablespoon dollops of cream cheese filling into the center of each cup.
  • Bake for 20-30 minutes or until cake batter is done ( stick a toothpick into the edge where just the cake is. If it comes out clean, it's done. Don't stick it in the middle. The middle stays soft and gooey.)
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Comments

  1. Belinda @zomppa says

    February 10, 2011 at 9:00 am

    What a sweet photo! I think you do have a budding photographer there. =) These are sinfully good!

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  2. Alison @ Ingredients, Inc. says

    February 10, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Those are great pictures and these look amazing. Hope you are staying warm

    Reply
  3. Monica says

    February 10, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Such a sweet post. Those are the memories that stay with us always, and it’s just great that you want to pass that down to your kids… and those kids, I don’t know what is cuter the kids or the cupcakes!… oh wait, I know – THE KIDS!

    Reply
  4. bonnie says

    February 10, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    looks fantastic ! love love love the pictures of little hands and faces covered in chocolate. that smile on your girl is priceless 😀

    Reply
    • jodiemo says

      February 10, 2011 at 1:01 pm

      Thanks Bonnie! THey were some happy kids eating those cupcakes. They keep begging me to make some more! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Dana says

    February 10, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Any cupcake filled with creamcheese and chocolate chips is my kind of cupcake.  This sounds so great…. no wonder you wanted to pass it on!

    Reply
  6. Lacey @ dishfolio.com says

    February 11, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Very cute. We’d love for you to share your recipe at dishfolio.com!

    Reply
  7. Kathleen says

    February 11, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    What a lovely post! It made me think wayyyy back to my own childhood! This recipe honestly sounds amazing and I can’t wait to try them myself! Thx;)

    Reply
  8. Kristina says

    February 12, 2011 at 9:44 am

    They sound great. But I’m still not sure where the “blackbottom” comes from. Is the bottom of thr cupcake unusual?

    Reply
  9. Kristina says

    February 12, 2011 at 9:47 am

    Oh, or is it supposed to be like, the bottom part of the cupcake is chocolatey, and the upper part is white from the cream cheese? Duh, that must be it!

    Reply
  10. Hope Clark says

    April 1, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    I made these the other day and they are soooo good! You could also play around with the filling on these. Ill probably try leaving out the chocolate chips and adding cherries and making a Choc-cherry cheesecake cupcake next. 🙂

    Reply

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