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It’s Friday! Hooray! And I am NOT showing you ice cream!
Wait, what??
I know, it is a miracle that I actually baked a dessert. Like in the oven, HOT temps people. Not the below freezing ones I have been hiking in lately. Trust me, it was hard to actually get my brain to think outside the ice cream box, but when it started snowing again on Wednesday it got a little easier. Especially since I have been freezing my butt off since the sun set on late Tuesday night……and the sun has been gone ever since, taking all the warmth with it……
Really it is typical.
So I am not going to complain, cause I live here and that’s that.
What I will complain about? My broken oven! Ugh. It is awful, I mean all I want to do is bake, bake and bake some more since I am freezing and want warm goodies to literally warm me up, but my oven decided to slowly die on me yesterday. Ok, well technically I do not think it is slowly dying. No, actually I am pretty positive I know exactly what the problem is because this has happened twice now. The heating element got worn out and just simply needs to be replaced. Again. For the second time.
If you are asking yourself how I baked these cupcakes, well then I’d have to tell you I baked them before it started “dying”, but I could have baked them yesterday if I wanted to because lucky little me has double ovens to save the day!
When one goes down, the other one is there to pick me up and get me through these freezing cold, snowy May days.
Oh and trust me, I would have one big fat meltdown if I did not have an oven to use. It would not be a pretty site and most likely I would only allow my mom to see this meltdown because one, she can handle my meltdowns (anyone else would run for the hills and then run a little farther just to be safe) and two, I am super shy and would NEVER let anyone other than my mom see me like that. Never.
Which makes me wonder why on earth I am telling you about them. Blogging makes me do, err say weird (uncomfortable?) things.
Awkward.
I was never really a big candy eater growing up. I was one of the weird kids that actually liked eating healthy and had a whole bag of baby carrots after school instead mac and cheese or pizza or candy. Yeah, a whole bag. I have a stomach of steel.
To be honest, snickers were never my thing. They were hard to eat, so normally I tossed them a side on Halloween and went straight for the giant chocolate Malley’s bar. I would still do that today, however I have grown to like Snickers. I think this is mostly because they are in one of my all time favorite desserts that my mom makes every Christmas Eve. Death By Chocolate.
Not sure why her recipe has chopped Snicks, but it does and it works. Enough said.
I really started liking Snickers though when I made my homemade version for another project a few weeks ago.
Yes, homemade Snickers! They are awesome and basically these are a cupcake Snickers. Yes, cupcake Snickers, and yes they are even better (of course I would say this).
Ok, but here is the thing. These are not just a normal Snickers flavor. Nope, instead of regular old caramel sauce I made coconut caramel sauce. Ah huh. It is safe to say these cupcakes are epic.
Let’s break them down just so you can understand how epic they are.
Chocolate cupcakes with the centers removed and filled with a little milk chocolate ganache just at the very bottom of the cupcake and then filled to the brim with marshmallow coconut nougat filling. Then, I topped them with more milk chocolate ganache and frosted them with a coconut caramel buttercream frosting, sprinkled on toasted coconut, chopped peanuts and another good drizzle of both the milk chocolate ganache and the coconut caramel sauce.
Yeah, I told you.
Epic.
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Such a Friday recipe.
Hi,
Everything on your site makes me drool? would love if you would also provide meatric measurements for us Europeans! It would make it a whole lot easier to bake your delicious everything.
Thanks
Lynne
Hi Lynne! I will look into it! Thank you!
So happy I came across this! Quick question though, in the recipe some parts say canned coconut milk and others just say coconut milk. Should it all be canned or are those two different ingredients.
HI! I always use full fat canned coconut milk in my recipes. so sorry if that is confusing! Please let me know if you have any other questions. I hope you love this recipe. Thanks so much! x Tieghan
Hi I just found this recipe and I have to say it looks amazing. I really want to make them but my family and I are not big fans of coconuts. Do you have this recipe without it or something similiar?
Hey Cassie! Just swap coconut milk for regular milk in the cupcakes and then use heavy cream for the caramel, Nougat Filling + Chocolate Ganache. Leave all the shredded coconut milk out. Hope you love these!
Thanks!
My nugget filling is coming out a white color instead of a tan color! What did I miss? I added coconut oilsugar milk marshmallow fluff peanut butter and vanilla!
Hi Shareen!
As long as you added all the ingredients, followed the directions, the filling taste good and is the right consistency, than I would not worry about the color at all! Sometimes things turn out slightly different for other people.
Hope you are enjoying these right now!
These look absolutely amazing! Wow! I popped over from Six Sisters Stuff…thanks for sharing!
~Abby =)
Thank you so much, Abby!
Drooling…. seriously, drooling! Love them! I’ve pinned it! Thanks for sharing at Two Cup Tuesday at Pint Sized Baker.
Thank you so much!!! And thank you for pinning, Karyn!