Notes on a Cupcake: Candy Cupcakes

All of my friends were talking about how they LOVE candy...so I decided to make candy cupcakes. I made Reese's and Snickers cupcakes and I was told they were great. While I ate some of the mini Reese's cupcakes, I didn't try the snickers. Nevertheless, my friend Cassie (who enjoys most of my cupcakes) said, "These are my favorite cupcakes you made so far!"

On Friday I brought the cupcakes to my moms office and they were a hit there, too! Krista, an employee there who I have known for awhile, said she loved them as well. She used to work with Wharton Event planning and now does other event stuff part time. She said she would even try to have me cater some of the parties with my treats. I was ecstatic!

The cupcakes were pretty simple to make. The challenging part was making the filling for the snickers cupcakes. I chopped up snickers and put them into a homemade carmel mix.

Snickers Filling

In the past I have felt that some of my cupcakes were too sweet from the addition of sauces, frostings, etc. Because of this, I made the carmel a little more bitter and the cupcakes less sweet. People seemed to enjoy this because there was a larger contrast in flavors. This let each flavor be distinguished more instead of the whole cupcake tasting like sugar (something that upsets me with store bought cupcakes).