Over Christmas, my mom had found salted caramels that she knew my sister had been hankering for. These things were incredibly addictive- gooey caramel encased in a chocolate shell, sprinkled with sea salt. The flavor combination was incredible, with every taste bud jumping to life with these. They were delicious. I wanted to re-create this idea my making chocolate cake with a salted caramel sauce.

I found a recipe from Cooking Light for the cake portion that described the cake as being moist and with a very deep chocolate flavor. It sounded perfect to be the backbone of my dessert. The recipe was incredibly easy to follow, and luckily I had most of the ingredients already on hand, aside from the buttermilk. They asked for fat free buttermilk in the recipe- I just couldn't find it- so instead I went with regular old, packaged, dried buttermilk. The basic steps of the recipe were to combine the dry ingredients (I included the package of butter milk in with the dry), blend the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla




After quite possibly the longest 45 minutes of my life- I deemed the caramel cool (sure) and selected a cupcake to try. I peeled the wrapper off of my cake, set it on a nice white plate and had FAR too much fun drizzling caramel over the top! It had beautiful consistency- smooth and the perfect thickness so it would drizzle without glopping or disappearing.
The combination was absolutely amazing. The cupcakes were wonderful, deep rich flavor, incredibly moist but without being heavy. They had a nice spring to them, and were absolutely delicious on their own. The caramel was just the ultimate in decadence. The salt hadn't melted completely so it wasn't AS salty as I had hoped, but it was sweet and wonderful with a very small hint of salt. I realize that I had let it go just a touch long and there was a bit of a odd background flavor that appeared occasionally. Overall though, this was a perfect pairing.
I managed to send these off to work with John this morning and the reviews have been great. I'm definitely looking forward to making these again!
2 comments:
Really?! These look absolutely fantastic! I hate to bake but I might suck it up to try these. I LOVE the salted caramel sauce idea. Yummm
GreatCaramel Saucesideas.
I need more Caramel Sauces
in my life!!
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