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.
mmmm these look great 🙂
I’m just getting into baking (thanks to much inspiration from your site) for things other then Christmas, and I’ve also been inspired to decorate things with more then just a simple spread of icing/frosting and sprinkles. My wonderful dad and Fiance even surprised me with new cookie cutters (I had 4 or 5 christmas shaped ones and that was it) and icing tips/bags to help me get started, and my first batch of cookies will be this week 😀
I was just telling my coworker that I want to bake something with pumpkin tonight. These look soo good!
OMG!!! These look amazing. I cant wait to try them out. I will definitely be getting those pretty liners!!
Oh those caramels look amazing!
I love anything Pumpking with this time of year!!!
Oh my, this recipe sounds absolutely wonderful …. 3 of my favorite flavors, all wrapped up together! Thank you!
Why do I NOW want a cupcake? LOL. They look delish.
Cool giveaway,
Susie
susies@twcny.rr.com
Love these cupcakes…they look so elegant!! 🙂
Even if it doesn’t come out as expected, there is nothing you could do to make browned sugar, butter and cream taste bad!
Sounds like a really fun book! I love love love pumpkin foods!!