These old-fashioned black bottomed cupcakes are a rich and fudgy treat with a cream cheese filling. They are surprisingly easy to make!
Years ago, I came across black bottomed cupcakes in David Lebovitz’ The Great Book of Chocolate (<-affiliate link), a small book that is surprisingly packed with tons of awesome recipes (it introduced me to Congo Bars) and loads of information about chocolate. I made black bottomed cupcakes back then and loved them, but I only recently rediscovered them again, tinkering with the original recipe to make the recipe my own.
Black bottomed cupcakes are an old-fashioned vintage cupcake, one that yields a super-rich and fudgy cupcake base with a “built-in” frosting made of cream cheese. If you’re a fan of deep and fudgy chocolate baked goods, like my easy fudge brownies, my miso caramel soy sauce brownies, rainbow cheesecake brownies, chocolate crackle cookies, or Texas-sheet cake, you have to try these cupcakes!
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