chocolate cheesecake muffins

the hubster was mightily impressed with these ...

i made these a few weeks ago as my birthday cakes to take to the office ...

I have been saving the blog til i had time to sit down and write the recipe out.

so if you want to do some easy chocolately swirly impressiveness ... this is the recipe for you.


you will need :

Cheesecake mix:
175g cream cheese (make sure its full fat)
60g sugar
1 egg (lightly beaten)
1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Muffin mix:
150g flour
175g sugar
35g cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup veg oil
4 tbsp melted butter
2 eggs (lightly beaten)
1 tsp vanilla essence
110ml milk (this is fairly approximate, just put it in little by little and check how runny your mix looks)
75g semisweet chocolate

heat the oven to 190 degrees// gas mark 5
get your muffin tray ready, with cases, or grease it (I always use cases)

For the cheesecake mix combine the cream cheese, sugar, egg, and essence in a bowl, leave to one side.

Then for the muffins, mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.

In a second bowl mix together the oil, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, melted chocolate and about half the milk.

Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Add the remainder of the milk, little by little, until you have a thick cake mix.

You are going to layer the mixtures into the cases so you do no want it too runny, but it needs tobe pourable.

Layer your mixtures into the muffin holes, starting with the chocoate mix. Pour a blob into each hole,  this does not have to be perfect, each muffin will be different, then follow with the cheesecake mix and repeat until the holes are about 3/4 of the way full.

You can either leave them as they are in sort of ring formation, or swirl through them with a knife to create a marbled effect. 

Wack them in the oven for about 25 mins ... mine took slightly longer, but it was the first thing i cooked in my new oven, so i was still working out the temperatures and timings.

Leave for a few mins in the tray before turning to a wire tray for cooling.

Seriously gooey, easy muffins to impress ... !!