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.
The caramels sound great, but that buttercream sounds even better!
These look amazing! I’ve been wanting to make caramels, but never thought to try pumpkin. YUM!
These look absolutely delicious! I’m excited to bake them. 🙂
Wow. Those look fantastic.
Amanda! You constantly out-do yourself girl. Lovely. I can almost taste them!
Sounds delish – I can’t wait to try the cupcake recipe. I have found so many good pumpkin recipes lately that I went and bought an embarrassing number of cans of it this past weekend at my local grocery store – so that I am prepared whenever the mood strikes.
I’d love to win the cookbook – but if I don’t, I am definitely picking up a copy of Nina’s book! 🙂
Those look amazing!!
These looks absolutely beautiful! Congrats on the cookbook-I can’t wait to buy it!
I *also* like baking. And cupcake liners. And dancing in my kitchen. And I’d bet that I’d like eating pumpkin caramels too. Although I’m scared of making them. But perhaps I shall if I win this book 😉
The cupcakes & caramels look so wonderful! I really don’t know how you do it with all of your kiddos!! I hope you ate at least one (or more)!!!!