Turtle Cupcakes

Here is another very yummy cupcake recipe. Again you need to have some of the homemade caramel sauce made to use for this recipe.

Chocolate cupcake:

1 3/4 c. flour

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

3 squares (3 ounces) semi sweet baking chocolate

1/2 c. butter, softened

1 c. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1 c. sour cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Fill muffin tins with cupcake liners

In a small bowl melt chocolate for 30 seconds, stir and then continue to melt. Set aside. In another bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Blend in the vanilla, Add the eggs and beat until creamy. Add melted chocolate. Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients until combined. Then add 1/2 of the sour cream followed by another 1/3 of flour, the last half of sour cream and then the rest of the flour. Blend until smooth.

Pretzel crust:

2 cups crushed pretzels

2/3 c. melted butter

1 c. sugar

Mix together.

Put 1 Tbsp. of pretzel crust in the bottom of each cupcake liner. Top with chocolate cupcake batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Take out and cool. Once they have cooled inject with homemade caramel sauce.

Chocolate Buttercream Frosting:

1/2 c. butter

2 1/2 c. powdered sugar

1/2 c. baking cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

2-3 Tbsp. milk (maybe more if to thick)

Mix well. Frost cooled cupcakes and sprinkle chopped pecans on top.