Chocolate Cupcakes With Salted Caramel Frosting

These moist and fluffy Chocolate Cupcakes With Salted Caramel Frosting are delicious, decadent, and a crowd-pleaser. The cupcakes are moist and not too sweet to offset the sweetness in the frosting. The Salted caramel frosting is creamy, smooth, and packed with caramel flavour.

About This Recipe

• These Chocolate cupcakes have a very versatile recipe that can be matched with various frostings, such as Cream Cheese Frosting. Also, they pair well with different kinds of nuts, such as hazelnuts, to add to the recipe batter.
• The list of ingredients is very simple, and I bet all the ingredients already exist in your pantry 🙂
• This recipe calls for both butter and oil. Butter adds a delicious aroma to the recipe, and oil makes the finished product moist and fresh tasting.
• As for the liquid, I use heavy cream in this recipe. Heavy cream is a great source of fat as well as liquid.
• These Chocolate Cupcakes use one tablespoon of sour cream. Sour cream is a kind of acid, and when it comes in contact with leaveners such as baking powder, tenderizes the crumb. Full-fat Sour cream also contains 18% milk fat.
• We also need Dutch-processed Cocoa powder. I use this Cocoa Powder.
• As I mentioned above, these cupcakes are not too sweet, and since the frosting contains powdered sugar, there is a perfect balance in the sweetness.

Salted Caramel Frosting

• This frosting is one of the most decadent and delicious frostings, in my opinion. I mean, who would not like caramel? I don't know anyone 😉 See this post on how to make a creamy and delicious Caramel Sauce. Making a good caramel sauce is not difficult, but there are a few things to consider when it comes to making a rich and creamy caramel sauce.
• You can use caramel sauce with ice cream as a glaze or fillings in cakes and cookies. Or add it to the frosting to create the most delicious flavour.
• The base for this frosting is American Buttercream, and at the end, we need to add half to ⅔ of a cup of caramel sauce. The more sauce you add, the more intense the caramel flavour will become.

How to Make These Chocolate Cupcakes With Salted Caramel Frosting

• Start by sifting the dry ingredients, including flour, cocoa powder, Baking powder, and salt.
• Mix the heavy cream, oil, and sour cream in a separate bowl and set aside.
• Use the paddle attachment to beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape the bowl as needed.
• Add the eggs one at a time, and make sure to mix well before adding the next addition.
• Add Vanilla exract.
• Add the dry ingredients alternating with the wet ingredients in three passes; start and finish with dry.
• Scoop the batter into the cupcake liners to ¾ capacity of each liner. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Let them cool down before frosting them.

Make The Frosting

• Mix the Meringue Powder and salt into one cup of powdered sugar.
• Using the paddle attachment, beat the butter for 3-5 minutes until it is pale in colour, light, and fluffy.
• Add the powdered sugar in ¼ cup and beat well after each addition.
• Add vanilla extract.
• Add the heavy cream to smooth out the buttercream and make it easy to pipe.
• Add the caramel sauce and beat until the mixture is homogenous and silky. The amount of caramel sauce is up to you how strong caramel flavour you desire. However, make sure to add at least half a cup to be able to taste the caramel.
• Use your desired piping tip to pipe the frosting on top of the cool cupcakes. I used 1A.
• Drizzle some caramel sauce on top of the frosting and sprinkle some sea salt on top.

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