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January 17, 2018 ·

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Cupcakes· Desserts· Favorite Posts· Food & Recipes

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What’s the Project? These chocolate salted caramel cupcakes are going to make you swoon! The base of the cupcake is simple-it’s a cake mix with a few fancy touches. Then top with this amazing salted caramel buttercream frosting and drizzle with homemade caramel sauce. 

Want to make some new friends? Just make them some of these amazing chocolate salted caramel cupcakes. They’ll love you immediately. In fact, I took these with me on a girls’ trip a few weeks ago and they were such a big hit that I started to wonder if they are the reason that I got invited. I’m telling you right now that these cupcakes are amazing!

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes-This amazing chocolate cupcake recipe is topped with salted caramel frosting that is so good! The best cupcakes! #cupcakes #chocolate #dessert #desserts #caramel

The chocolate cupcake part of these cupcakes is soft and moist. And it’s super easy because it’s just a cake mix but with some additions. The chocolate salted caramel cupcakes are then topped with salted caramel buttercream frosting and then drizzled with homemade caramel sauce and sprinkled with salt. I love these things. I could eat a million. Seriously.

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes Recipe:

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes

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These chocolate salted caramel cupcakes will make you swoon. A soft, light chocolate cupcake topped with salted caramel buttercream and drizzled with homemade caramel sauce. They are perfection.
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Total Time 25 mins
Course Dessert
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Devil's Food Cake Mix
  • 1 5.9 oz. box of instant chocolate pudding
  • 1 C sour cream
  • 1 C vegetable oil
  • 1/2 C water
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Combine all ingredients and mix until well combined. The batter will be fairly thick.
  • Pour into cupcake tins lined with papers.
  • Bake for 18-20 minutes at 350 degrees (Take them out as soon as they bounce back from your touch. 18 minutes on the dot is perfect in my oven.)

 

Caramel Drizzle Recipe:

Caramel Drizzle Ingredients:

  • 1 C Sugar
  • 6 Tbsp butter (at room temperature)
  • 1/2 C Heavy Cream (at room temperature)

 

Instructions:

Read through all of these instructions before you begin so that you are prepared because you need to move fast.

Pour sugar into a pot on the stove and begin to cook over medium-high heat.

As the sugar starts to melt it will clump into little sugar rocks. Begin to whisk it at this time. Keep whisking and it will start to melt into a liquid. If the sugar gets stuck inside your whisk, switch to a spoon for a while.

Keep whisking and stirring until the temperature reaches 350 degrees or it’s a nice, deep amber color.

Then, stir in your butter. Once that is fully incorporated, add your heavy cream and mix that in. Keep mixing until you can get all of the lumps out.

Let this sit for about 10 minutes or so to set up.

 

Caramel Buttercream Frosting Recipe:

Combine:

  • 3 sticks of softened butter
  • 4-6 C powdered sugar
  • About 1/3 cup of milk
  • 1/2 C of your caramel sauce that you just made

Mix all of this together. If it’s too thick, add more milk. If it’s too runny, add more powdered sugar. You want it fairly thick.

Spoon it into a piping bag or a ziplock bag and cut off the corner. Pipe it on to your cupcakes.

Then, drizzle the cupcakes with the extra caramel sauce and sprinkle Kosher Salt on top of each one:

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcake Recipe

Then, try serving these to your friends. Just try to tell me they don’t love you. They will. Unless they are on a diet. And even then they probably will.

Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting

 

I hope you love these chocolate salted caramel cupcakes as much as I do!

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Comments

  1. Sheila Garcia says

    February 13, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    I can’t wait to make these cupcakes for valentines. Thank You

  2. Carole M says

    February 13, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    Pinned it! Looks goooooddddd

  3. Elissa says

    February 14, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    My sewing machine is broken so I spent the afternoon cooking these instead

    • Amber says

      February 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm

      How’d they go?

  4. Jenn says

    February 23, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    These look SO good Amber!!!

  5. Emily says

    February 27, 2014 at 7:52 am

    I made these yesterday. All I have to say is WOW! They are fantastic. They have been a HUGE hit at work. I even made mini-cupcakes for all my dieting co-workers! I think next time I’ll half the frosting recipe; I had about 4x more than I needed.

    ★★★★★

    • Amber says

      February 27, 2014 at 3:08 pm

      Glad to hear they were a hit.

  6. Jami says

    March 21, 2014 at 2:03 pm

    Making right Now! So excited

  7. Sandy says

    April 3, 2014 at 11:58 am

    OMG! These cupcakes are SO good! The cake is so light and airy and the frosting, very good! I did however tweet the sauce…didn’t have a lot of time, so I bought Torani caramel sauce ( the kind they use in coffee shops)’ and added 1/2 cup to the frosting, then drizzled on top of swirled frosting. Topped with fine grained sea salt. I’d give this a ten out of ten! Excellent!

  8. Cecilia says

    June 4, 2014 at 9:08 am

    Hi Amber!! I’m from Argentina, love cupcakes and want to try this recipe but I was wondering when you say “stick of butter” is the 4OZ stick?

    ★★★★

    • Amber says

      June 9, 2014 at 9:49 am

      Yes. 4 oz

  9. Jacqueline says

    August 13, 2014 at 7:13 pm

    I made these cupcakes and they were a HUGE hit at my office!!!

  10. Karin says

    November 17, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    I made these today and they were great! Thanks for the recipe. I used my own caramel sauce recipe and they turned out great.

    ★★★★★

    • Amber says

      November 17, 2014 at 1:38 pm

      Love to hear that!

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