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.
You had me at cinnamon frosting! I can’t wait to make these!
Thanks for the recipies.
These sound heavenly… MMMM.
October is my favorite month, only because of pumpkin food! I’m making those caramels tonight!
Two words! OH MY! These go into the MUST DO/WILL DO file of your blog posts! I love everything about fall, especially all the great eats! 🙂
I love pumpkin time and chocolate only makes it better:)
What fun! I would love to try my hand at candy. 🙂
Chocolate and pumpkin! Brilliant. Am rushing to get these into the oven. Fingers crossed that I am your winner.
Oh my goodness those caramels look divine! I want the cookbook just so I can make them! Great post! Can’t wait to try the cupcakes either!
Beautiful!
I love making candy! It is about the time right now that I crack out my tool box and stock up on ingredients to fill my holiday orders. This book would be great to add to my confectionery arsenal!!!