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Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Center Surprise

Blogger Paula Jones from Bell'alimento shares a Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Center Surprise recipe. A chocolate lover’s dream—chocolate cupcakes with a salted caramel center surprise, topped with chocolate frosting and garnished with crushed pretzels.

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Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 1 hr 30 min
Servings 18

Ingredients

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil’s food cake mix

: Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

18: salted caramels, unwrapped (from 7-oz bag)

2: containers (12 oz each) Betty Crocker® Whipped chocolate ready-to-spread frosting

6: small pretzel twists, coarsely crushed

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box. Fill muffin cups about 3/4 full. Place caramel onto center of batter in each cup; press caramel into batter just until covered.
2 Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until tops spring back when touched lightly in center. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
3 Place frosting in decorating bag fitted with round tip #20. Starting at outer edge of cupcakes, pipe frosting in spiral pattern, gradually elevating to a peak in center; garnish with pretzels.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.

If you do not have a decorating bag, you can use a resealable freezer or food-storage plastic bag. Simply snip a small opening at one bottom corner of the bag before piping frosting.

If you cannot find salted caramels, you can substitute regular caramels and sprinkle a small amount of fleur de sel sea salt or coarse sea salt on top of each.

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Posted 12/22/2012 7:56:15 PM REPORT ABUSE Cespo said:

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So disappointed. Not enough information. I should have read the reviews first the caramel sank to the bottom,became hard and the cupcake fell apart because of it. I treid 3 times 3 different ways. I wasted a lot of time and money.

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Posted 8/29/2012 8:05:51 PM REPORT ABUSE bbarown said:

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I made these for a party and they were great. The only suggestion I have is to sprinkle the pretzels right before serving as they loose their crunch if you do it before hand

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Posted 12/10/2011 3:30:10 PM REPORT ABUSE ljm941 said:

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I should have read the reviews first! As mzpoo77 stated below, the caramels sank to the bottom and got hard after cooling. I will warn my guests Christmas Eve to watch their teeth when eating these! I'm not going to try this recipe again, even with the good suggestions below! One star because they tasted good, and I used my homemade chocolate buttercream frosting.

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