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.
Those look amazing! You are so very talented
Everything in this post looks absolutely amazing! 🙂
I love pumpkin treats – breads, cupcakes, cheesecake – but can’t imagine what pumpkin caramels are like!
I just made caramels for the first time a few weeks ago and am now totally hooked, so I’d love to expand out with the pumpkin ones. Thanks for the chance to win the book! I love your site.
Caramels….YUM!!!
I would be intimidated by making caramel too. Any candy makes me nervous, since you have to watch the temp.
These look amazing!
I have gone through a few cans of pumpkin already this year, and I can’t wait to try this recipe! Thank you for posting it! You are wonderful. 🙂
Yum those look good! Could I substitute plain yogurt and save a little sugar, or would it throw the flavour off?
You’ve got me seriously wanting a cupcake and caramels now! I swear one of these days I’m going to give caramel making a try, just like I say about marshmallows 🙂 Some day.