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 might be too late for the giveaway, but if not, the cake looks great but I like hearing your “next time around” adjustments.
That looks awesome, Amanda! We are huge caramel fans around here. I know, for me, it stems from some awesome caramels that my great grandma was famous for. YUM!!!
Wow. Why haven’t I seen pumpkin caramels before? Those sound amazing!
Those look so wonderful !!! I would love to make them !
YUM these look scrumptious!!! I have been following your blog for about a month, and I LOVE all the sweet confections you ‘bake’ up (can’t say cook, its a baking blog lol) 🙂 I am going to have to try some of these recipes.
Yum, Yum, Yum!! I will definitely be trying those!
I would love this cookbook!
Thanks for giving your readers such a sweet opportunity!
Oh my, mouth watering! On top of that they are beautiful. Thank for the chance to have them.
They look delicious! I wish I could reach into my computer & eat one!