With a brown sugar cupcake, cream filling and caramel icing, these Caramel Cream Cupcakes are as sweet and delicious as the candy! I love them so darn much!
Caramel Cream Cupcakes
I have been a fan of Caramel Cream candies for as long as I can remember. Both the caramel and the cream take me to a happy place. These cupcakes do just that as well.
So over the last week or so, we’ve be trying out different shades of light blue to finally paint our living room. We’ve been in our house for about 4 years and it was new when we bought it. We’ve yet to paint and we are finally getting on it.
I’m telling you, picking a paint color is tough! We had little patches of about 8 different shades on one wall and I went back and forth many times.
I finally picked a shade and the hubs is painting a wall at a time. He likes doing that kind of thing. I can’t wait to see it all done! I think the light blue walls with the white trim will look quite nice.
Now I just need a new rug and decorative pillows to match! 😉
But back to these amazing cupcakes. I have a funny way of eating some of my favorite foods. These candies are one of those foods.
I like eating the caramel and cream separate. That way I can really taste each of them. Honestly, the cream is my favorite part. So sweet and delicious.
I bite one of the thin ends of caramel off, then peel the caramel off the cream, and eat the caramel. Then I savor the cream. It’s quite a delicate process. 🙂
To make one of my favorite candies into a cupcake, I started with by making the cupcake with brown sugar and browned butter. Browned butter is really not hard to make. It’s just melted butter that is cooked until brown. You just need to watch it while it cooks because it can burn very quickly – and it’s not a nice smell when it burns. But when done right, browned butter has a wonderfully caramel-y smell and flavor. The browned butter and brown sugar lend their flavor to the cupcake.
Then the cream filing – my favorite part. It’s made with shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla. It’s so similar to the filling in the candy – it’s delicious!
The caramel icing is…well…the icing on the cake. Together it all makes a wonderfully sweet, candy-like cupcake. I absolutely love them! Caramel-y, creamy, moist and delicious!
Caramel Cream Cupcakes
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 12-14 Cupcakes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
With a brown sugar cupcake, cream filling and caramel icing, these Caramel Cream Cupcakes are as sweet and delicious as the candy! I love them so darn much!
Ingredients
CUPCAKES
- 3/4 cup salted butter
- 1 2/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar, loosely packed
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3 egg whites
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp milk (I recommend 2%)
CARAMEL ICING
- 1/2 cup salted butter
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3–4 tbsp milk
- 12–14 caramel cream candies
CREAM FILLING
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 2 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 cup water
Instructions
TO MAKE THE CUPCAKES:
TO MAKE THE ICING:
TO MAKE THE FILLING:
TO FINISH OFF THE CUPCAKES:
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cupcake
- Calories: 601
- Sugar: 71.4 g
- Sodium: 210.2 mg
- Fat: 28.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 85.7 g
- Protein: 4.1 g
- Cholesterol: 54.3 mg
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Enjoy!
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This is amazing. Definitely a keeper. Seriously this is my favorite candy and I can’t believe how much this tastes just like the candy!
★★★★★
Hello Lindsay! For the cream filling, would I be able to swap vegetable shortening with butter?
You can, but the shortening gives a more authentic filling flavor to match the caramel cream filling.
Amazingggg! These were a real winner in my house. It’s my sisters birthday next week and I’m hoping to make the same recipe but bake it in a cake form. Do you think this could cause any issues with the final results?
So glad you enjoyed them! It should be fine as a cake.
can you replace sour cream with cream cheese?? whats the sour cream do for the cupcakes? So curious!
Thanks,
Jess
No, cream cheese would not work as a substitute in these cupcakes.
I made these today. I’ve baked thousands of treats over  the span of my 33 years marriage. Even had a small baking business for a few years. THESE  hands down were the best cupcakes I’ve  ever had . Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.Â
So glad to hear you enjoyed them so much! 🙂