Salted Caramel Cupcakes {World’s Best Dessert}

Want to make some new friends? Just make them some of these. 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. They are amazing Salted Caramel Cupcakes.

The chocolate cake part on these cupcakes is soft and moist. They are topped with caramel frosting and then drizzled with caramel sauce and sprinkled with salt. Love these things. I could eat a million. Seriously.

Salted Caramel Cupcakes Recipe:

 

Caramel Sauce Recipe:

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 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:

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.