These are Pumpkin Chocolate cupcakes with Cinnamon Buttercream and Pumpkin Caramels on top!
Having never have made caramels before, the process seemed daunting.
But I got this new book, Sweet Confections by Nina Wanat and knew I wanted to try. Her directions are easy to follow and the photography was done by the amazing Todd and Diane of White on Rice.
The pictures are enough to make you drop everything and run to the store for supplies.
These tasted amazing. Ah-mazing.
I remembered I had some of these fun fee-standing cupcake liners and I literally danced over to my supply closet to retrieve them.
Um, I like baking. And cupcake liners. And dancing in my kitchen. And eating pumpkin caramels.
I used an open star tip (2D) to pipe out big clouds of cinnamon frosting. Then I simply went back and added a caramel square to each cupcake.
Chocolate with pumpkin has never sounded appealing to me until now! Gotta try these.
you had me at caramels…
Gorgeous and yummy! I am so scared of the candy thermometer that I have nightmares about it! But the cupcakes sound totally do-able!
Mmm those look so yummy!!!
Yum, those look tasty! I love pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips, and pumpkin pie with chocolate ganache, so pumpkin chocolate cupcakes sounds good to me!
yummy! i’d like to own that!
Those caramels look simply devine!
thank you for hosting!
Those look delicious and would be perfect for my daughter’s schools Pumpkin Festival in two weeks. Fingers crossed, thnk for the opportunity!!
Yum! I’d love to try lots of goodies from that book! And your caramels/cupcakes look scrumptious!
Looks amazing! I’d love to try.
Oh this looks amazing! I will make these this weekend. I’ve only ever had pumpkin cookies with chocolate chip, but they were divine, so I will need to try these. And, I hope I hope I win the book–I’ve been dying for a candy cookbook, but my husband said I need to work my way through my other cookbooks before I buy more…. 🙂