Caramel pumpkin pie cupcakes and chunky hubby pretzel banana peanut butter chocolate cupcakes

These cupcakes are by blogger Tara at Smells Like Home. The first is a caramel pumpkin pie cupcake, which she entered at CupcakeCamp New Haven. Click through for the recipe. She writes:

I’m a lover of all things pumpkin but to tell you the truth, I could take or leave pumpkin pie. That’s why this cupcake is so great. It’s got all of the fabulous flavor of a pumpkin pie without the so-so texture. The caramel frosting is really what pulls the whole experience together though. You’ve got the spicy (not heat spicy) cupcake balanced with this deliciously sweet caramel frosting…top it with a few Heath bar pieces and you’ve got yourself an out of body experience.



The pretzel-topped cupcakes below are her "I Heart My Chunky Hubby" cupcakes (click through for the recipe), which she describes on Flickr as "A deconstructed combined version of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby and Chunky Monkey ice cream flavors. Roasted banana cupcake, peanut butter frosting, topped with sliced banana and chocolate dipped pretzel."