Black-and-white cupcakes

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       Title: BLACK-AND-WHITE CUPCAKES
  Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
       Yield: 16 Servings
  
            Cream cheese layer:
       8 oz Cream cheese; softened
     1/4 c  Sugar
       1 lg Egg
            Cake layer:
   1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
       1 c  Sugar
       2 tb Unsweetened cocoa powder
       1 ts Baking soda
     1/2 ts Salt
     1/2 c  Water
     1/3 c  Vegetable oil
       1 lg Egg
       1 ts Vanilla
     1/2 c  Semisweet chocolate pieces
  
   Recipe by: Mrs. Fields
      Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line 16 muffin cups with foil or paper
   liners.
      Prepare Cheese layer:  Beat cream cheese in bowl until smooth. Beat in
   sugar and egg until blended.
      Prepare Cake Layer:  Mix together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking
   soda and salt in a medium-size bowl.
      Whisk water, oil, egg and vanilla.  Stir into flour mixture. Stir in
   half te chocolate pieces.
      Fill prepared muffin cups half full with chocolate cake batter. Using
   remaining cake batter and all of cream cheese batter, spoon batters, side
   by side over bottom cake layer, creating a top that is dark and white.
   Sprinkle tops with chocolate pieces.
      Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for about 30 to 35 minutes or until
   wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Transfer pan to wire rack
   to cool for 10 minutes. Turn cupcakes out onto the rack to cool
   combpletely.
  
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