10 pretzel cupcakes for the salty and sweet lovers

I obviously have a sweet tooth, but I also have a salt tooth, so the idea and reality of pretzel cupcakes makes me smile. Here are 10 examples of pretzel cupcakes for those of you out there seeking a little salty with your sweet.


photo by Blondie and Brownie (see their 2009 Vendys post for more info), via Flickr)


photo by death by cupcake on Flickr: Pretzel, brown sugar and butter crust topped with a milk chocolate cake then iced with chocolate buttercream with pieces of pretzel crushed in it and finished with a hand dipped chocolate covered pretzel. It has the perfect salty/sweet combination.


Lemon cupcake with lemon Italian buttercream. The trees were made out of royal icing and pretzel stick by LynnInSingapore on Flickr.


This cupcake is from Sugar Mama's Bakeshop in Austin (where I'm holding our cupcake meetup this Sunday!), and is blogged about at eat! craft! live! via Flickr


Salted caramel pretzel cupcakes by tawest64 on Flickr - Chocolate cake filled with salted caramel, topped with salted caramel buttercream, dipped in crushed pretzels and drizzled with salted caramel.


pumpkin cupcake with pretzel stem by covetthycupcake on Flickr


woodpile pretzel cupcakes by QuintanaRoo on Flickr as part of a Cupcakes of Catan Flickr set


chocolate pretzel cupcake - get the recipe at Cupcake Project (via Flickr)


marshmallow pretzel cupcake robots by Lara604 on Flickr

And last but definitely not least:



Chocolate dulce de leche cupcakes with pretzel alphabet letters spelling HELLO LOVE by JustJENN, where you can get the recipe!