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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.
This looks flipping fantastic! I’ll have to make these for my snickers obsessed mom!
Thanks Nessa and yes you have to!! She will love them!
Whooooooooooooa, lady! You’re on fire this week! These cupcakes are insanity!!!
Whoa!!! Thanks Ashely! Thant means a lot!!
Oh my lordy, Tieghan! These cupcakes look absolutely incredible! The Snickers lover in me is freaking the heck out. Have a fabulous weekend!
Thank you, Georgia!! You have a great weekend too!
I never cared to much for candy growing up either except I did love snickers then and now. I can’t wait to try these cupcakes.
Thanks Victoria! I hope you love these!
oh my goodness… really need these soon. If nothing else, I am sure this Coconut Caramel Sauce will be happening on homemade ice cream in my kitchen this summer. It sounds deLISH! And those photos… no need for words. They’re just breathtaking! lots of drippage for me to drool over 🙂
Thank you, Holly!!! The coconut caramel sauce truly is AMAZING!
So many amazing elements going on in one cupcake! It’s like a flavor overload! I love it! Definitely a FRIDAY cupcake 🙂
Thanks so much Mimi!
I need to look away before I try to jump inside of my computer and eat my way out of it! Have a great weekend!
Ha! Thank Julia! Hope you have a great weekend too!
I’m dying over these cupcakes! They look simply scrumptious! Beautiful photos!
Thank you so much Kelli!
Happy Friday indeed! WOW! I’m drooling and it’s not even noon!
Thanks Kelly! Hope you have a great weekend!
OMG – These look AMAZ-ING! Love anything Snickers-related though, so I might be a bit bias! 🙂
Thank you, Liz! Snickers anything is pretty good! Have a great weekend!
Those look so good! Great shots of all of that ooey gooey dripping goodness!
Thank you so much Kevin! The dripping shots were fun to shoot!
I already pinned these this morning! Love!
Yes! Thank you so very much Maria!! I hope you guys have a great weekend!
These are some serious cupcakes! Love every single flavor you’ve stuffed in there!
hank you, Lori!! They are serious, but man are they SO worth it. I could not believe how good they were!
Wow. To say these took you AWHILE to make would be an understatement. They are stunning, the recipe is so creative, the photography is stellar. Yes, you rocked these. Bravo! And I happen to love Snickers!
Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Means so much coming from you! Yes, they took a little while and normally I am not into that, buy they were SO worth it upon first bite. I still can not get the awesome taste and flavor out of my head!
Thanks so much Averie!
Mercy!!! My husband would go for these. They are so yummy looking.
Your pictures are always to good. You do an outstanding job with them.
OOPS!!! So good!!!!
Thank you so much Charlotte! Hope you guys make these and LOVE them!