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.
Looks like a great cookbook.
Your blog is my guilty pleasure. It has been a rough day and other bakers-at-heart are a great replacement for being in the kitchen myself. Thank you for sharing your amazing recipes adn step by step instructions. You bake the world a better place!
Those look absolutely delicious and are on my to do list.
Those cupcakes are stunning! Would love that book to make pumpkin caramels – and likely everything else in it. We’re candy-making fiends around here.
Pumpkin, caramel and chocolate the best.
Everything about that looks delicoius!!
OOOO! YUM!!!!!
I LOVE THIS! I just salivate when Fall comes because I love pumpkin flavors 🙂 I want those caramels so bad!
I have always wanted to make caramels!
Those cupcakes look fabulous!!! Pumpkin caramels = yum!