{"id":1739,"date":"2017-03-16T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.sugarhero.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:45:50","slug":"snickers-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sugarhero.com\/snickers-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Snickers Cupcakes with Peanut Caramel Filling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These Snickers Cupcakes transform plain chocolate cupcakes into decadent, candy-bar inspired creations, featuring a peanut caramel filling, fluffy peanut butter frosting, and LOTS of chocolate and candy bars.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have never understood the gourmet cupcake craze. Don’t get me wrong—I understand the appeal of cupcakes<\/a> themselves. Bite-sized cakes, with a 50\/50 frosting<\/a> ratio, adorably petite, so cute they’re practically batting Disney princess eyes at you, and socially acceptable to eat as an afternoon snack? That<\/em> I get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I don’t <\/em>get is paying upwards of $6.50 for said cupcake, and waiting in crazy long lines for them, and fetishizing the shops that sell them. It’s just some cake<\/a> in a cute paper wrapper. Maybe with a scattering of sprinkles or a fondant<\/a> doodad on top. Let’s all calm down now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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So here’s whatcha do. Instead of spending $50 on a dozen fancy-shmancy cupcakes, take those two twenties and go to the store. Buy a bag of miniature Snickers, and some caramels, and some peanuts<\/a> if you don’t already have them. Take the remaining money, and buy yourself some slippers and a pair of loose sweatpants, or maybe a Slanket. You are going to want to get verrrrry comfortable when you enjoy these Snickers cupcakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These beauties start with a moist, rich chocolate cupcake. Use the best cocoa you can find, please, because a cupcake made with pale, tasteless cocoa is no kind of cupcake at all. The cakes are hollowed out and filled with a peanut-studded caramel, then they’re topped with peanut-marshmallow frosting that mimics the peanut nougat found in a Snickers bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we finished, you ask? Not remotely! Top them with a big drizzle of hot fudge sauce, a scattering of salted peanuts, and a chunk of a Snickers bar. Oh, you fancy thing. Resist the urge to sell them to your friends and coworkers for $6.50 apiece and instead bask in the knowledge that you created an edible masterpiece. Snuggle into your Slanket in triumph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These beauties will win over even the most skeptical cupcake doubters. If you’re a lover of candy bars, and a lover of excess, and a lover of cupcakes the size of your face, you are going to be a lover of this recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recipe notes:<\/strong> If the store-bought caramels you’re using are very stiff, you might want to increase the amount of cream to 1\/2 cup to make sure that the filling is nice and soft. No one wants to chomp on a big hunk of hard caramel in their cupcake! The pretty cupcake wrappers I used are called tulip cups<\/a> and can be purchased on Amazon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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