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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.
Incredible! These look awesome! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Time to Sparkle : )
Liz
Thank you so much, Liz!
I have now favorited every recipe of yours. Wow! Such amazing recipes.
haha! YES! Thank you, Kristi! I hope you love everything you try!
Ps. I’m your newest subscriber! Love your site! I’d love it if you stopped by mine, I think you’d like it! 🙂
YA!! Thank you so much Tiffany! I am so excited to have you as a new follower!
Wow, these look Ah-mazing!! Excellent photographs by the way 😉
Thank you so much!!
These are totally insane. I like it 😉
I know, but I really like insane! LOL! Thank you, Laurie!
Um, wow. Kiiiind of speechless at the moment! I don’t even like Snickers that much but I knooow I’d go to town on these cupcakes fo shoooo. LOVE the coconut addition. Maaaajor genius.
Thank you so much Hayley! I think you would LOVE these!
Would love for you to share this at my up where we pin all those who join to our party board http://myfashionforwardblog.com/2013/05/30/all-things-pretty-10/
Thank you!
Seriously. There are no words Tieghan!
Thanks Dorothy!! I was kind of in shock as well! LOL
Wow, this looks really good! Great pictures too. Nice work!
Thanks so much Jodi!
Oh………..these could so get me that new sofa I want!! Thankyou so much for sharing the recipe. New follower from the WCFS Awards Linky. You can find me over at unravelingends.blogspot.com
Haha! Thanks Rikki and thank so much for following along! I am very excited to have you as a new reader and I hope you get that new sofa! LOL
What I would give to face plant myself into about 4 of those glorious cupcakes! I am loving all the deliciousness that you piled into them!! And coconut caramel sauce? I could slurp that whole jar down in a hurry 🙂
Haha! Thank you, Jocelyn! Hope you are having a great weekend!
Ok, these are totally calling my name! I love every flavor in them!
Thank you, Deborah!
Sorry about your dying oven! But dude, these cupcakes – whoa. Yeah, I need every bit of this in my life.
haha! Thanks Chung-Ah! Wish I could send some your way!
Wowza! That looks insanely good! And your photos are absolutely gorgeous. Great post!
Wow! Thanks you, Anne!
LOVE. I’m a F.O.O.L. for snickers!
Haha! Thank you so much Cassie! Hope you have a great weekend!