Cheese Cake Stuffed Red Velvet Cupcakes

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Cheese Cake Stuffed Red Velvet Cupcakes

I will be honest, I don't love cake. I never have. Unless its cake batter, or ice cream cake, or with layers of fudge or something ridiculously rich, cake just doesn't do it for me. I had some requests for red velvet cake though. And I always deliver. In comes the cupcake. Cute. Convenient. Yummy- if you like cake. Seeing as how I require something insane to up the yum factor of cake I stuffed these plain jane cupcakes with cheese cake, and WALLAH! I approve of these cupcakes, even though they are cake.

I also admit, i used some boxes for the recipe. If you have recipes for either cheese cake or red velvet cake that you are fond of, by all means, use them, and assemble the cupcakes in the same way. I just don't make cake often, so I don't have any particular recipes I like.

Ingredients
1 box red velvet cake mix + the ingredients required to make the cake
1 6 inch store bought cheese cake-with or without crust (I used one with a graham cracker crust)
1 Can cream cheese frosting, or a recipe enough to cover 24 cupcakes

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Line muffin tins with baking liners, or grease with butter.
2. Mix cake mix and required ingredients as directed. Spoon batter into each cup about till about 1/3 full.
3. Using a spoon or cookie dropper, drop 1 inch balls of prepared cheese cake into center of cupcake tins.
4. Spoon additional cake batter over cheese cake until muffin tins are about 2/3's full or cheesecake is covered.
5. Bake approx 20 minutes, or as directed by the box mix/ recipe you are using for the cake. Allow to cool and frost if you'd like. I used cream cheese frosting.

Yield: about 24 cupcakes

Enjoy!