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.
What absolutely beautiful cupcakes. I’m definitely going to make them. Thanks for the opportunity for the cookbook!
Can’t wait to try those!!!
Oh those sound AWESOME! I love pumpkin and I love chocolate, how can you go wrong!
Looks delicious!
i really want that cookbook!!! amanda, i adore your site! you have such wonderful advice and ideas, i just can’t stay away from your blog.thanks for the wonderful giveaway!!!
Yum yum! Those look perfectly amazing!
ooh those caramels look so good. i love all the pumpkin foods during fall!
I’d love to win! New cookbooks are so much fun-I can spend hours looking over all the recipes 🙂
can’t wait to try these….looks yummylicious! thank you!
what a lovely combination! would love to try the recipes.