What could be more delicious than my black and white muffins? Warm from the oven the rich chocolate muffin filled with cheesecake is a great way to say to good morning to loved ones. You can even set them up to bake the night before to make life easier.
Sunday Morning I woke up craving chocolate, I knew I must be feeling better! I haven’t made anything for breakfast for the past few weekends so it felt good to get up with enough energy to bake. I try to find recipes that don’t take a lot of time to make, I get up earlier than Lisa and that usually gives me enough time to get something in the oven.
This morning I knew exactly what I wanted to make, years ago one company I worked for had a coffee shop and I had to officially become a Barista to oversee the operation, along with the coffee end of the operation, there were incredible baked goods daily, and one of my favorites was always a black and white muffin! Rich moist chocolate with creamy cheesecake filling….sigh
I haven’t made these in years and couldn’t find my recipe, but did find one from King Arthur’s Flour, and since that is my favorite flour, I thought I would give it a try. I have to say that I was not disappointed, the muffins were rich, moist and oh so chocolaty, the perfect base for my cheesecake filling.
I would recommend mixing the dry ingredients beforehand. In fact, make two, store them in ziplock bags, date them and then in the morning when you get up it’s almost no work at all to have freshly baked muffins! I did not add the espresso powder to the muffins because I wanted the chocolate flavor to be the focus of the muffin.
If the cream cheese filling isn’t for you, but you’d love a good chocolate muffin this recipe is for you, just add some chocolate chips and walnuts and they come out like brownie muffins. I only made half a batch of the cream cheese filling and made some smaller muffins with white chocolate chips and walnuts, they were delicious, like a cakey brownie!
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Black and White Muffins
Ingredients
Chocolate Muffin
- ⅔ cup Dutch-process cocoa
- 1 ¾ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar*
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon espresso powder{optional}*
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk (8 ounces)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 teaspoons vinegar
- ½ cup butter (1 stick) melted
Cheesecake filling
- 16 oz cream cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Line a large muffin pan with paper or use a vegetable spray to coat the cups.
- In the bowl of your mixer, whip the cream cheese until smooth.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and sugar and whip until smooth and creamy.
- Place Cheesecake filling in a pastry bag, and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cocoa, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, espresso powder, salt.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla and vinegar.
- Add the wet ingredients, along with the melted butter, to the dry ingredients, stirring to blend; don’t over mix the muffins, its okay if there are some lumps.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tin.
- With your pastry bag full of cheesecake filling, place the tip of the pastry bag into the top of the batter and squeeze in enough to increase the volume of the muffin by about a quarter of the original size.*
- Bake the muffins for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
- Remove the muffins from the oven, and allow to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before serving.
Kimmi
These muffins look so great. I bet they taste even better.
Sandra
Oh yeah the creamy filling is for me.
Jessica | Oh Cake
These would go so great with the pumpkin-caramel coffee I’m drinking right now. I like the idea about mixing the dry ingredients ahead of time. Do you think the finished product would freeze well or get too dry?
Chef D
I think if you wanted the cheese filling to stay moist, I would keep it covered, not let any of it show, the air is what’s going to dry it out, but if its fully enclosed it should hold up better.
Jill @ MadAboutMacarons
Wow! What a way to start the day. Lisa is a lucky lady! Glad to hear you’re getting the energy back and way to go with these cheesecakey muffin winners.
The Kitchen Noob
Ooooo! I’m already thinkin’ Thanksgiving and Christmas morning. 🙂
Tina@flourtrader
I do like the flavor combo in these muffins. Funny that we always fill cupcakes-very creative that you decided on filling muffins. This is a must try and I am glad you posted this. Well done.
dudut @mytwistedrecipe
this looks sooo yummy! thanks for sharing the recipe Chef! i’ll definitely do this sometime 🙂
Baking Serendipity
I love this cream cheese filling…and chocolate for breakfast sounds heavenly. It’d be a special treat in my house 🙂 Hope you’ve had a great weekend!
Frank
Wow, I have to say, that cheesecake filling looks incredible. Moist and cheesy… and encased in chocolate goodness. I’m going to have to search these out!
Katie @ BloomEveryday
These looks fabulous! Love your recipes and blog – such inventive and delicious looking recipes. 🙂
Alida
This reminds me of my recipe for black bottom cupcakes, which I absolutely love. Your recipe sounds incredible…love the idea of chocolate and cheesecake for breakfast!
Baker Street
Ooh! Filled with cheesecake! I’m in! Looks lovely D! Are there any leftovers?
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen
I’ve never heard of this muffin. I’m sure glad I like to try new things though! 🙂
Foodness Gracious
Cream cheese is a great addition to muffins, I actually made some pumpkin recently which were supposed to have cream cheese and I thought I’d be smart and use mascarpone…epic fail 🙁 Next time I’ll stick to the cream cheese.
Take care…
Ann
Delicious! who doesn’t love chocolate and cheesecake together?! I’m glad you’re feeling better and a big cup of coffee with these muffins would be delicious!