Caramel (Cup)Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting (Daring Bakers)
This month’s Daring Baker’s challenge comes from Shuna Fish Lydon. I’d like to thank our hosts this month for choosing such a great recipe. Hubby LOVES caramel! Thanks so much Dolores of Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity, Alex of Blondie and Brownie, and Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go. You can see the full length recipe on Dolores’ blog.
I did a decent amount of salt to the frosting to cut out the sweetness. Many DBers claimed the frosting and cake together were just too sweet. We really enjoyed the salted caramel flavor.
This month brought about another first for me. I love DB for forcing me to try new things. I’ve never made caramel and the caramel sauce used in the frosting and the cake is delicious. I didn’t have enough powdered sugar so my frosting did need to be refrigerated to stiffen up. After some time in the fridge, I was able to pipe it onto the cupcakes.
I obviously opted to make cupcakes out of the recipe since we had the freedom to choose any size of cake. The recipe for this month yielded 22 cupcakes for me and they baked for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. The frosting yielded the perfect amount for the cupcakes, with just enough left for my expert taste tester. I thought they were very good. Other than the caramel sauce, the recipes were not difficult to execute.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Oh yum! Those look terrific. Congratulations on a successful first challenge and welcome to the Daring Bakers. Great job 🙂
-jen at use real butter
You bread looks great! Congrats on overcoming your fear of yeast.
Congrats on your first challenge!! Looks great!
1st, congrats on your 1st DB challenge! 🙂 2nd, congrats on overcoming your fear of yeast! i recently overcame this fear and am so glad i did! 🙂
Congratulations on your 1st challenge! Your bread looks so great!
Great looking bread! Congrats on becoming a daring baker. Isn’t it fun?
you’ve inspired me to get over my fear of yeast as well!
Great job on your first challenge and on overcoming your yeast fear! Welcome to Daring Bakers!
Welcome to the DBs! You did a “wicked awesome” job!
wow.. looking at your bread really reminded me of how this first challenge was for me.
Great looking buns.
Bravo on your first challenge! You did fantastic! I loave how cozy the loaf looks, it must be great for sandwiches, and congrats on beating the yeast demons to a pulp this month!!
Wow, what a success! All looks great
You did a wonderful job on your breads. Congratulations on your first DBer challenge!
Natalie @ Gluten A Go Go
Nice job! Love the step by step photos!
See yeast is not as scary as you though it was, huh?
Congratulations on your first challenge. All of your goodies look wonderful!!
You did such a wonderful job on your first challenge!! Especially with accidentally adding the larger amount of potatoes.
I loved your step by step photos and your bread looks divine. Great job in telling the yeast who’s boss !!
Your bread looks great. I loved your post…funny and detailed! You succeeded with using yeast – great job! Congrats on your first DB challenge!
Hey, your breads look great! Thank goodness your first challenge with us wasn’t baked yeast jello … gross. Anyway, your rolls especially look nice and tender torn in half, just crying for butter. Job well done!
Congrats on your first challenge! Carrying heavy baking ingredients lets you burn calories so you can enjoy your creations! Yippee!
Your bread turned out perfect! and the pictorial post is an added bonus! Super first challenge!
Glad you showed that yeast who is boss!
Nice job and good for you for getting right to it!
xoxo
Gabi
Congratulations and welcome. It lookw from here like you successfully tamed the yeast beast! And thanks for the measuring-cup-in-the-colander tip!
your bread looks great, your slashes on the loaf are so perfect!
I must say, for someone who is fearful of yeast you really came out on top and produced both a stellar loaf and rolls. Great job!
Welcome to the DBers!
Christina ~ She Runs, She Eats
What a success story! From the storm to conquering of yeast … you did it all! Way to go on your first challenge!
This dough looks like it makes a REALLY good loaf. Welcome to DB’s! Nice job.