Chocolate Salted Caramel Cupcake with Peanut Butter Frosting

So here is the the Chocolate Salted Caramel cupcake with Peanut Butter frosting. I really need to shorten the name....any ideas? I made the salted caramel from scratch. I've never made it before. It's very interesting. You basically boil sugar and water until the temp reaches 360 degrees. Then you add heavy cream and sea salt. The kids would love watching this process...it's very cool! It leaves quite a mess in the pan, but it is so worth it! The salt adds the perfect salty to the sweet of the caramel. The peanut butter frosting is to die for. Very light and not too sweet. Russ, Briley, Haven and my neighbor tasted it....two thumbs up!!




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Cupcake Insomnia

A couple of weeks ago I couldn't sleep.  The family and I had been watching Cupcake Wars on the Food Network and I had cupcakes on my brain.  I grabbed a pad of paper and a pen, tiptoed into the bathroom, sat on the toilet (lid down) and began to write down all of my cupcake ideas.  When I was done I had 26 cupcake ideas and 6 pages of names for a storefront!  Since then, I have decided to make one of the cupcakes from the list each week.  So far I have made a Carrot Cake cupcake and a S'mores cupcake.  They both turned out really well.  This week I am creating a Chocolate Caramel cupcake with Peanut Butter frosting and a Caramel Popcorn garnish.  I will post recipes and pictures soon.....

Growing up, I always love to bake.  I wore out my Easy Bake oven when I was little and with enough persistance I got permission to use the real oven.  I started with boxed cake mixes and three or four ingredient recipes like Rice Crispy Treats and dump cake.  I really taught myself how to bake in college when I had my own little kitchen.  It was then that I perfected the Peanut Butter cookie.  I only had two bowls, a set of measuring cups a set of measuring spoons, a hand mixer, a 9x13 pan, a cookie sheet a spoon and a spatula.