Black Bottom Cake

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A black bottom cake is based on a black bottom pie but it is different. A black bottom cake has a chocolate cake bottom and is topped with cream cheese which is mixed with chocolate chips. The cake is often topped with shaved chocolate. Black bottom cupcakes are popular.

When I first decided to try a black bottom cake, I expected that it would be a thin layer of chocolate with a top layer of cheese cake. However, when I followed the recipe, I found that there wasn't enough cheese cake to create a layer. Instead the cheese cake was meant to be marbled in with the chocolate.

Even though the cake was tasty, I do want to make modifications to the recipe to remake the cake in what I feel will be a better manner.



Recipe:
Cake:

• 1-1/2 cups Flour
  
• 1 cup Sugar
  
• 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
  
• 1/2 tsp. Salt
  
• 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  
• 1 cup Water
  
• 1/3 cup Vegetable Oil
  
• 1 tbsp. Vinegar
  
• 1 tsp. Vanilla
  

Filling:

• 1 (8 oz.) pkg. Cream Cheese
  
• 1 Egg
  
• 1/3 cup Sugar
  
• 1/8 tsp. Salt
  
• 1 cup Chocolate Chips
  

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9" x 13" pan. Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla. Pour into pan.

Cream together cream cheese, egg, salt, sugar. Add the chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto top of batter in pan. Bake 30 minutes.

Baking Tips:

• You won't have enough cream cheese to cover the whole cake so you will probably want to drop it in a checkerboard pattern.
  
• I want to make this cake again, but I want to use a 9" round instead and double the amount of cream cheese filling which I hope will give me a clean layer of cheese cake on top.
  
• The chocolate cake will rise while baking.
  
• If you want your cheese cake to not be tinted with brown from the chocolate cake, once you drop it on the cake, do not smooth or move it around.
  
• The chocolate chips made the cake really rich. If you want, you can leave them out.
  
• You can top the cake with walnuts, powdered sugar, cream cream frosting, or shaved chocolate. I chose not to top the cake with anything and ate them more like brownies.