Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes

Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes ~ Holy mother of cupcakes, grab your fork and for the bold and the brave that will skip the fork . . . open wide. This is going to be a session of symphonic sweetness.

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Chocolate Turtle Cupcake

The faint of heart need not apply. By that I mean, if you are a tepid dessert partaker this won’t be your thing.

Case and point, the gentlemen that surveys my messy kitchen wanderings, asking questions more often than tasting, gave a big pass on this. Reason: Too much going on in that thing.

I will admit it’s a sweet one, but sweet in the best of ways. I first saw these at Cavelli Bakery’s site and being that it’s located in Texas, there was no way I could order some. So like any foodie, I set out to recreate it in my kitchen.

This chocolate turtle cupcake has everything. It’s a chocolate cupcake with a pocket of caramel sauce tucked inside, and on top of that is caramel buttercream with some sprinkled brown sugar pecans and to finish everything off . . . drizzled caramel and chocolate sauce.

Are you ready?  Continue reading Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes

Creme Brulee Cupcakes

Crème Brulee Cupcakes ~ Crème brulee nested inside a chocolate cupcake- Wow. Forget death by chocolate, how about death by cupcake. This is a killer combination.

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Creme Brulee Cupcakes

These babies were set to debut this week on the blog (as it is now) and at my girlfriend’s now cancelled wedding.

I was so excited when I thought of these cupcakes, thinking I was so clever and original. Then I put my Crème Brulee Cupcake to the Google test for originality, I was quickly humbled. What I thought was an original idea, is not. If you type in Crème Brulee Cupcake, you’ll see it’s everywhere.

What you will also see is, most of these recipes fill the cupcake hole with Swiss or regular buttercream and then brulee it.

Well my friends, allow me to be a picky foodie for a moment, but that’s not my traditional understanding of crème brulee. I wanted the Real McCoy not burnt sugar on frosting.

With that came the test runs. Continue reading Creme Brulee Cupcakes

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