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.
i love your blog! you do such cute things!
Yes please! I would love this book, I can’t wait to try the cupcakes!!!
Yum oh yum oh yum!!
These are absolutely gorgeous!! And I’m definitely going to be checking out that cookbook. I can imagine that it’s worth it for the caramel recipe alone!!
I will definitely have to try these! They look amazing!
Thank you for sharing your recipe. I can’t wait to make these.
I’ve passed by the free-standing liners in supply stores and usually thought the concept silly and over the top, but this post has me giving them another look.
Also, excited to try this recipe soon!
I love fall because everything pumpkin! From pumpkin spice lattes to pumpkin muffins. Yum!!!
These look delicious!
I’m totally salivating.
I hope my roommates don’t notice me trying to lick the computer screen.
they look delicious! i love the paper liners you use, they’re so cute!