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 pumpkin and I love caramel…what a perfect combo!
I can’t wait to try this recipe. I love everything pumpkin and cinnamon!
These look delicious! Can’t wait to try them!
Question…. Do you actually bake the cupcakes in both of those liners?! I’ve seen them around, but I always thought they were to put the cupcake in AFTER it was baked in a ‘regular’ liner….
Those caramels look delicious!!
pumpkin and caramel-two beautiful words!!!
These look amazing!
I’ve always loved pumpkin. Just made some pumpkin jam last week and it came out deeeelicious!
Thanks for sharing!
Pumpkin caramels sound wonderful! I am up for pumpkin anything right now!
I love pumpkin in just about anything! These look amazing! Can’t wait to try them!
These look yummy!