Penuche Frosting

As promised! Almost impossible to screw up penuche frosting. I have done everything wrong to this recipe that you can do and it comes out. Yay!

Penuche Frosting

1/2 c. butter (or Earth Balance)

1/2 c. light brown sugar

1/2 c. dark brown sugar

1/4 c. cream (or coconut milk)

pinch of salt

2 t. vanilla

2 c. powdered sugar

Melt your butter, then stir in brown sugars and bring to a boil over med. heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring all the while.

Stir in cream and salt and bring back to a boil, still stirring. Then remove the pan from the heat and let cool to lukewarm. Now add vanilla.

Pop your goo in the mixer and slowly add your confectioners sugar. Try not to overbeat. If you get too thick, thin with hot water. If it's too thin, more sugar.

Ta Da. :D

Weekday Nummy Turtle Cupcakes, Part 1

Okay, so today we were cleaning out the pantry and found a gf chocolate cake mix.

Now, let me be upfront, I'm trying to use let 'packaged' products in my life and I love exploring and doing from scratch recipes, but let's be honest. I have a life, hormones, and the periodic need for a quick cupcake that tastes like sin. My go-to almond flour chocolate espresso cake is grand, but doesn't lend itself to cupcakes.

So we looked in the fridge.

We had cream, pecans, some salted caramel sauce (part 2 will be how to make salted caramel sauce to keep in the fridge because OMG, you never know when in the month you might need caramel on hand.

So, make your cake batter according to the recipe. Mine took 3 eggs, a stick of melted butter, and a cup of water.

Then, if you're me, eject your beaters into your batter. *sigh*

Cook as per instructions. (this one is easy to type out)

Now, let them cool for just a few minutes and poke nice sized holes in the top with a chopstick.

Pour in slightly warmed up salted caramel in the holes. (And by slightly, say, 10 seconds in the microwave?)

This is what they look like filled.

Then, make penuche frosting and sprinkle with pecans  (penuche frosting will be part 3)

TA DA!

Look at the numniness...

These are absolutely delicious. I mean, like I Bought Them At A Bakery delicious.

:D