Happy Birthday!!
We were going for a pub crawl to celebrate Hubby’s college roommate’s birthday. I offered to bring cupcakes. He loves coffee flavored things, so I had quite a few options when I flipped through Crazy about Cupcakes. I decided on the Carmel Mocha cupcakes.
As usual, when I start baking, I get really excited and tend to bake way too much. Since I wanted to make the Carmel Mocha cupcakes “full-dairy” for the birthday boy, I wanted to make some cupcakes that I would be able to eat. I decided to use some strawberry preserves that we had paired with French Vanilla cupcakes. When I make two batches, I tend to make one from scratch and one from a box mix.
Everyone said the Carmel Mocha cupcakes were great, and I loved the strawberry filled cupcakes. Overall it was a baking success!
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. 
After making vegan salted caramel ice cream, I’m in love with the stuff 🙂 If you’re interested, I do have the recipe on my blog for vegan salted caramel, if you’re interested in a non-dairy version!
i love caramel sauce! thanks for sharing!
This recipe was posted a week after I had my daughter so I didn’t get around to making it until now. I decided to do this as a Christmas gift for a friend, and it took me 3 tries but I finally got it right, and it’s delicious!!! Now that I know the tips and tricks to make it work, I can definitely see this being a good gift for future holidays/occasions.
beantownbaker — January 5th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
Glad you were able to make it work for you!