{The Girl Kyle Bakes} Salted Caramel Cupcakes
I've come across several recipes for a salted caramel cupcake, but unfortunately I wasn't smarted enough to bookmark them. On Sunday I decided it was time to bake again, but instead holiday orders or requests from my family, I'd bake what I wanted to bake! After that decision was made it took me several hours and a power nap later to decide again on what I wanted to bake for myself. Normally I'd make vanilla or even try a new vanilla recipe, but that was boring! I needed to try something completely new. Now my hopes were up, trying something new and I completely love salted caramel. Have you tried the fleur de sel caramel sauce at Trader Joe's? Ah-mazing! You'll thank me later. So of course when one's hopes are ups it's quite likely that you'll be disappointed, right? Don't get me wrong, these are tasty - they just don't really capture salted caramels the way I would have preferred. The cake tasted like a vanilla cake and after 3 tablespoons of caramel in the frosting, it was simply sweet. Maybe it's because I opted out of making the caramel from scratch and so maybe I need even more caramel in the frosting. I don't know, but that's why I drizzled the additional caramel on top and sprinkled on the salt. I figured it couldn't hurt.
The funny part, as hard as I am on my cupcakes I still brought them in to work. The sales team loooved them. They were so happy. I received compliments all day! That should tell you to go ahead and try this recipe. Don't listen to my judge-y comments!
Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Makes 20 cupakes
- 1/4 cup caramel sauce
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cup cake flour
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- 2.5 cups powdered sugar
- 2-6 tbs half & half
- 3 tbs caramel
- fleur de sel or other course salt for sprinkling