My Chocolate Cheese Cupcake

It has been a while.... Cik Ngah 'cuti' baking and cooking due to health reason. Cik Ngah was missing cooking and baking so much! But what to do? 

Last Saturday marked the 52th day after Cik Ngah operation and Cik Ngah felt like baking again. So I started with this recipe that uses cream cheese as Cik Ngah need to finish the cream cheese stock in the fridge. 

Alhamdulillah, the cupcake turned out well and delicious... Original recipe is from here; Chocolate Cheese Marble Cake. And my version is as follows;

Ingredients
A:
250 g Cream Cheese - room temp
100g unsalted butter - soften
100g caster sugar
2 medium size egg
100g flour
100g white cooking chocolate - grated

1 tbsp grated lemon zest

1 tsp vanilla essence

B:
260g butter
300g casters sugar
6 medium size eggs
200g flour
100g Van Houten chocolate powder (Cik Ngah used 1/2 Van Houten 1/2 Hersyes)
1 tsp baking powder 
60 ml fresh milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method A

1. Beat cream cheese, unsalted butter and sugar until smooth, add egg, lemon zest, vanilla and beat until blended.
2. Fold in flour and grated chocolate, beat until well blended.
3. Pour batter into a large pipping bag - cut a 2 cm tip with scissors... set aside

Method B

1. Sift flour, chocolate powder and baking powder together.
2. Beat margarine and sugar until creamy and smooth, add egg one at a time making sure it is well blended before each addition. Add vanilla.
3. Add sifted flour, cocoa powder and baking powder alternately with fresh milk (f-m-f-m-f).. 
4. Pour batter into a large piping bag, cut a 2 cm tip with scissors ... Set aside

How to
1. Use cupcake cases.
2. Pipe brown and white batter alternately.
3. Bake in a preheated oven of 160C for 20 minutes for cupcake.