Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes for a Party Tray

For Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes for a Party Tray, the counter starts with g Butter, g Sugar, and g Eggs. Portion it for 12 people.

Count on 20 minutes of prep, 10 minutes of cooking, about 45 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

• 85 g Butter
• 173 g Sugar
• 75 g Eggs
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 98 g Milk
• 150 g Cake flour
• ¾ teaspoon Baking Powder
• ¼ teaspoon Baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon Kosher Salt
• 100 g Caramel Sauce ⅓ cup
• Easy Chocolate Buttercream

How the cooking goes

1. Heat the oven to 325°F convection.
2. Line standard muffin tins with cupcake liners.
3. Sieve together cake flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Keep it to one side.
4. In the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time followed by vanilla extract, scraping down the sides of the bowl after every two eggs or so.
5. Add the caramel sauce.
6. Switch the mixer to low and then alternately add the flour mixture and milk. You don’t wait until all the flour has incorporated until you add the next batch. You just keep adding with two hands. Pro-style.
7. Portion or pour into prepared muffin cups. Make sure they are no more than ¾ full or they will overflow.
8. Bake in preheated oven until a cake tester comes out with a few clinging crumbs. This will take about 10-12 minutes depending on your oven.
9. Cool about 5 minutes in the tins then turn them out onto a rack. Allow to cool until it is no longer warm.
10. Move some of the salted caramel to a piping bag and inject some of the caramel into the center. You can also cut out a small piece and the fill it completely but that always seems unnecessary to me these days.
11. Frost with your favorite buttercream! You used the easy chocolate buttercream.

After it comes off the heat

Let the pan settle before you slice, so the crumb stays together. Cover leftovers once they are cool.

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