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There is more to this cupcake than meets the eye.

It is a cookie-bottomed cupcake! An idea stolen from How Sweet Eats.

I don’t want to get all “the possibilities are endless!!” on you, but they kind of are. How Sweet Eats also features a snicker doodle cookie cupcake.

For the cupcake above I used the chocolate chip cookie recipe from How Sweet Eats. The cupcake portion is from a boxed chocolate cake mix, and the frosting is salted caramel buttercream. I cheated on that, too — I made my basic buttercream by beating together two cups of powdered sugar and two sticks of butter, then adding jarred caramel sauce (the horror!)  until the flavor and consistency were just right. I added a couple pinches of salt, but next time, I’d add more so the salt was more obvious.

I think recipe will be fun to play with for holidays and events — it’s a crowd pleaser for sure, and it’s so straight forward that experimenting is easy.

What kind of cookie bottomed cupcake combo are you dreaming up?

Posted January 16th, 2012 under Baking. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.