Salted caramel love

I blogged a while back about my frustration with the salted caramel cupcake. (My favorite flavor!) I haven't been able to find one I love! Now I am thinking I can bake one myself. Can I?? Seems like a serious undertaking. My goal is to have my cupcake taste like the Bespoke Chocolates salted caramel truffle (with pretzel pieces!):

Bespoke Chocolates

SO freaking good. The salt is definitely there, but not overpowering. The caramel is liquid-y and true, with a sort of smokiness underneath it all. I want that in my cupcake. Does anyone have a recipe they absolutely love? I mean, not just a "here's a recipe I use for salted caramel" but a "I'm head-over-heels in love with this recipe and it's only because I like you that I am willing to share" kinda recipe. I'd prefer a vanilla cake base, but will try a chocolate one if you have one you thinks is top-notch.


Comments

Tara said…
I LOVE salted caramel and just made cupcakes modified from the Baked cookbook. Just as a heads up, the Baked recipe has to be one of the hardest I've ever tried, but the results are amazing. I just blogged about my Sweet & Salty cupcakes here: http://cupcakeobsessed.blogspot.com/2009/04/sweet-salty-cupcakes.html

These have a chocolate base, but I'm planning on using the left over salted caramel that I have to make vanilla ones.
anna said…
That sounds like a really good cupcake idea - good luck making it real! The closest thing I've made was a salted cashew turtle cupcake, but it's really awesome. I just added salt to a really good caramel pastry cream filling and topped them with coarse salt: http://informalblathering.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/iron-cupcake-earth-nuts-seeds-i/
I made a really lovely vanilla cupcake for a barbecue here in Philadelphia yesterday. The "Salty Sweetie" was filled with salted caramel and topped with either chocolate ganache or vanilla buttercream and topped with pretzels and cashews:

http://thecupcaketologist.blogspot.com/