This recipe is not good! I made these and followed the recipe to a T. The filling is excellent and I made a glaze for the top but the cake part itself is not good at all. I would suggest using a different cake recipe or just using a box cake!

Wow. I stayed up late to make these for the bf's birthday tomorrow and I think he's just gonna have to have a birthday sans cake-y dessert. I will not be serving these to anyone. These are truly awful. The idea is great. I followed the recipe exactly and they looked great and set up as they were supposed to, but I think they might be the worst cupcakes I've ever had. They don't really taste of chocolate, and the cream cheese filling is a disturbing texture (someone here said like scrambled eggs- I have to agree). The flavor of the filling, instead of blending nicely with the chocolate, is an odd sort of jarring, twangy flavor. But overall I think it comes down to a matter of taste. These taste cheap and of poor quality to me. I have learned my lesson, though. I won't be making any more cake-like items that rely only on huge amounts of oil and no eggs. It results in a cake that is moist, yes, but still just tastes sub-par. Not what I want in a cupcake.

These were good and easy. I ended up putting buttercream frosting on top, which was good, but a bit too sweet for me. Next time I will probably do a glaze or some light frosting.

This is a great recipie!! I cheated and substituted the cupcake mix with a Devil's Food fix for that exta fluffy, extra dense texture. I then added a cream cheese frosting (from a can). Topped it off with a raspberry and mint leaf.

I was really skeptical about these, especially since the cake batter doesn't contain eggs. But the chocolate cake is even moister and fluffier than box cake, which I think is hard to beat in the "moist and fluffy" department! In the first batch, I tried to push the cream-cheese mixture down into the cupcake and cover it a bit at the top, to "hide" the filling inside. But when I did that, I really couldn't even taste the cream cheese mixture. That mixture is really not intended to be a liquidy center, just a punch of different taste in an otherwise normal chocolate cupcake. The chocolate chips do give it a bit of the liquidy feel. I'd recommend sticking with a dollop at the surface, and not trying to make it a center thing. I used milk chocolate chips instead of semisweet because that's what I had on hand, but I think semisweet would definitely have been better. Milk was too sweet. I also had a lot of the cream-cheese mixture left over. You could cut down on the ingredients to make less of it. Great treat especially for kids, and easy to make. My nearly-2 and 3-year-old girls helped me, and I didn't have that usual "let them lick the beaters" guilt because of raw egg. There is no egg in the cake! :) (I might have snuck some myself.)

Wow, wow, wow! These are so delicious. They taste like cupcakes from a bakery. I made them for a group and they got rave reviews. I made them with the frosting from Pioneer Woman's blog called The Best Frosting Ever and it complimented these really well. I could eat these everyday.

Rave reviews! Made for my workplace. Used tip of filling part way, then added surprise plus a little more batter on top. They could not get enough. For my second batch, I had to cheat and use box cake mix so there were enough to go around. No one knew the difference. I had leftover filling so that weekend I made for my family. It was much easier to get the exact right portion of filling once it was refrigerated. This recipe will stay in my recipe box forever. Thank you!

Made these for Easter and everybody loved them. In fact they were fighting over the last one. The surprise filling adds an extra goodness to the regular chocolate cupcake. Will be making these again!!

This is an outstanding recipe. I made it as stated except I followed others suggestion and filled the paper liner 1/2 full before adding the cream cheese. Doing this ensured that you didn't see any of the cream cheese surprise on top. Although the cupcake was absolutely delicious at this point, for appearance I added a cream cheese frosting on top.

So Rich!! I can only eat one of these a day (glad I have my big kids to help me out, lol). But I'm pretty proud of being able to bake these now. Quite ideal for future celebrations and the like. Thanks!