Chocolate Cupcake with Caramel Icing

Aren't these sooo pretty!!

I love the way the Caramel Icing is dripping down the cupcake!

I think Caramel and Chocolate totally belong together-sooo yummy!:)

I found this recipe here over a year ago and made them shortly after-finally getting around to posting them;)

They really look nothing like they were supposed to-the frosting wouldn't stiffen up so hence the Icing-which I thought looked really cool! Except that I decided to use paper liners on these and when you pulled the paper off some of the delicious Icing pulled off with 'em:(

Overall they were good but kinda dry-this always happens to me when I make from scratch cake...Any suggestions???

I've heard that you MUST sift and all ingredients should be at room temperature.

Is there any other tricks to making scratch cakes??

I really love my box mixes, but would like to figure this out cuz supposedly{;)} scratch tastes sooo much better!

Anyway these are your basic chocolate cake ingredients:

flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs and milk.

They have 3 oz. of melted semi-sweet chocolate added-you could add what you like.

I added milk chocolate instead, I think a German sweet chocolate would be really yummy:)

Frosting Ingredients:

butter, brown sugar, milk and powdered sugar.

Cook the butter and brown sugar together for a couple minutes, stir in milk and start adding powdered sugar.

Enjoy!!!

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