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What You Need:

CupCakes

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• ⅔ cup Hershey's Cocoa
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups water
• ⅔ cup vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Filling:

• 1 package ( 8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup Hershey's Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips or Mini Chips

How to Make It:

Prepare filling; set aside. Heat oven to 350° F. In large mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla; beat on medium speed 2 minutes or until well combined. Fill paper-lined muffin cups ( 2 ½ inches in diameter) ⅔ full with batter. Spoon 1 level Tbsp filling into center of each cupcake. Bake 20-25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in cake portion comes out clean. Cool. About 2 ½ dozen cupcakes.

Filling:

In small mixer bowl combine cream cheese, sugar, egg and salt; beat until smooth and creamy. Stir in chocolate chips.

Goblin's Delight Filling: Add 2 teaspoons grated orange peel, 4 drops yellow food color and 3 drops red food color to filling before stirring in chips.

Valentine Filling: Add 4-5 drops red food color to filling.