Sticky toffee cupcakes with salted cream caramel

I just made these and I'm so disappointed. I found the frosting really sickly sweet and I didn't think they tasted like sticky toffee pudding. However, my son and husband (my husband is english, son is 1/2 american 1/2 english) they both liked the cupcakes, so what do I know? My husband gave them 9/10

Hi Maureen, thanks for your comment, apologies the recipe was confusing.

You add the caramel to the buttercream and mix it in then pipe or spread the buttercream mixture onto the cupcakes.

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Do you put the caramel on cake then the buttercream

These cupcakes are just delicious, I will make them again and again!

These are fab. Taste just like sticky toffee pudding. The topping is lovely too the only issue I had is I found the topping very soft so when icing it collapsed a bit. These doesnt effect the taste though!!

I do not understand where the 3 1/2 stars came from...I took them to work and left two at home..everbody thought the cupcakes were amazing and the best cupcake they had ever had... I cannot confirm this because when I got home my son had ate them and said they were the best I had ever made...so will have to wait until I make the next batch and make sure I get in there first!!!! the frosting I made was not runny at all and decorated easily and apparently no-one noticed it being salty

I used this icing on a Ginger Cupcake recipe and they were AMAZING - a match made in heaven!! I will try with the intended cupcake recipe very soon and compare!

I followed this recipe to the letter and the cupcakes turned out very well indeed!

Next time I will let the caramel brown a little further to enhance the flavor of the icing though as I think I was a little impatient.

I will defiantly make these again and have already forwarded this recipe to a few others to try.

Maybe a bit to sweet......

These were lovely, and the icing was sooo delicious! My family want me to use it on other recipes too

i would like to say that the cupcake itself is very delicious, though heavy but tastes great and its soft. the icing, i agree with other comments, firstly too much salt being added makes it too salty and doesn't tastes good...secondly the icing is too runny and thus i was unable to decorate them well...so follow the recipe for cupcake as written but try some changes with frosting such as adding less salt and make a good butter cream so that when even u add caramel sauce in it, it doesn't get too runny otherwise u can only dream of decorating ur perfect cupcake.

These were so tasty and moist and stayed fresh for the next day unlike other cupcakes.Best cupcakes so far!Will only let me click 1 star but it gets 5 star!

Wont let me rate it but i'd give it 5 stars - I made it for the kids to give to their teachers for the end of year and they went down a storm. I'm going to try them with gluten free flour next time as my daughter is coeliac.

to blulou - today I made these for the third time! the first time, like you the buttercream was too runny, the second time I was too impatient and iced them when they were still too hot and today, they are perfect! I followed the recipe for the buttercream, but instead of making the caramel, I cheated and used waitrose creamy fudge dessert sauce and just mixed it with the buttercream the consistency was good as long as you wait for them to cool!

If you dont like dates then there are lots of other cupcake recipes, I would use one of them. The sticky toffee part of the cake/pudding comes from the use of dates so its not going to be a sticky toffee cupcake no matter what you replace it with. I have to say that for me you cannot taste 'dates' once its whizzed up and in the cake in these recipes anyway so it might be worth trying. I bet there are lots of people who've eaten sticky toffee pudding and not realised its full of dates.

I've just made these this afternoon but the frosting wasn't thick enough, even though I followed the recipe, so it hasn't kept the shape very well. Does anyone have any tips on how to get the buttercream the right consistency?

That aside these are delicious, will definitely be baking them again.

so so lovely, diffintly dat will give the natural choocklaty taest weel don love it.

These were a hit with my family who all adore sticky toffee pudding. I got 20 cupcakes out of mixture and found that I had lots of icing mixture left even though I slapped it on generously. Definitely will make it again.

I left out the dates as I just wanted toffee cupcakes and just added a splash of water to the mixture instead and they were great. The icing was far too runny. I used a tin of dulce de leche instead so think I would try the homemade version next time to see if it makes a difference.

These cupcakes tasted really good! The recipe is slightly wrong, as you don't need to add the salt and vanilla when making the buttercream, only when finishing off the caramel you add these ingredients.

I found at the point of adding the caramel to the creamed butter and icing sugar that the texture was quite loose. To help it firm up a bit I put it in the fridge for a little while so it was easier to pipe onto the cupcakes.

Awesome cupcakes though and all my family and friends thought so!

I meant to put 5 not 4 sorry!

This Recipe Looks Delicous and also taste delicous. My friend and I Have decided to rate this cupcake with 5 stars

Tried this, was really really good!. I used light brown cane sugar instead os muscovado, worked out really well. And i also forgot to add salt in the caramel, how does it affect it?. my cupcake tasted well. Anyone know te answer?

Lovely recipe. Hadn't make cupcakes for years and these worked really well. Must remember to buy a new cupcake baking tray as mine was too small so used a baking sheet, ending up with most of the cakes stretching and slightly overspilling the cases. Also I used dulche de leche - around 2 tablespoons was enough - and put a pinch more salt in. Delicious!!!

Hi Nora - I found the recipe on this site and couldn't resist trying it as sticky toffee pudding is one of my favourites. There are photos on my blog about these cakes. - [link] I also made them for Iron Cupcake and people really liked them!
@Nomnomnom I'm not sure why you would bother to make these as without the dates they would not be sticky toffee pudding. You'd be better to make plain vanilla cupcakes and just make the frosting.

I was wondering if I could use more flour/sugar/butter in place of the dates, as i'm not keen on them and would prefer plain cupcakes? Could anybody help me on this? Thanks x

i really loved making this and my friends are demanding more !!!

Lovely, just taken a look at your blog, excellent. Did you google the recipe or did you just come across it on the site? It would be ace if you uploaded an image.

I baked these and they were some of the nicest cupcakes I have ever made and I've made a few. Pretty simple recipe to follow and everyone that tried them really enjoyed them.
I've got some pics and changes I made in my blog post about them - feel free to take a peak
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Delicious! Very easy to make and looked a treat. Very sweet so one is enought, but much enjoyed by all who tried them.

Lovely to hear Lisa! Do you have any pictures, that you could upload to the recipe. We'd love to see them!

These cakes are fabulous and my customers love them. They were very easy to make and I shall be baking them again very soon.
10 out of 10 - Thank you

Glad they turned out well! This recipe is brand new, so fab to see a recipe comment already. Sorry about the error I have emended the recipe to include the icing sugar which stipulates 200g

very easy recipe - cakes deliciously moist. only irritation is that the icing stipulates icing sugar and then doesnt tell you how much to use - try using 500gm which works well