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Remember this Dulce De Leche Bundt Cake? It’s kind of a delicious life-changing dessert. Well, the other day when I was walking past a bakery here in downtown LA and saw through the window some delicious Dulce De Leche CUPCAKES. I couldn’t justify paying $5 for a cupcake when I knew I could make some myself, so I went home and starting playing around in the kitchen, and these cupcakes were born. And I may or may not have eaten 4 in one sitting! 🙂 #pregnancyproblems
Dulce De Leche Cupcakes Recipe
These decadent cupcakes will wow your friends (and they're not hard to make!)
Serving cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup sour cream
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup dulce de leche, warmed
- 15.25 ounces butter pecan cake mix, (or caramel cake mix), 1 box
Frosting
- 2 cups butter, softened to room temperature
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 13.4 ounces dulce de leche, 1 can
- 2 Tablespoons vanilla
- ¼ cup dulce de leche, for topping, (optional)
- ¼ cup toffee bits, (optional topping)
Equipment
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with cupcake liners.
- In a large bowl mix together eggs, oil, sour cream, milk, vanilla and dulce de leche.
- Add in the cake mix and stir until smooth.
- Fill cupcake liners about 3/4 of the way full, then bake for 18-22 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the cupcake comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
Frosting
- Whip the butter on high for 4-5 minutes, stopping to scrape the bowl once or twice.
- Reduce the speed to low and slowly add in the powdered sugar (you can add more or less depending on how thick you want your frosting).
- Once the powdered sugar is all incorporated, add in the can of dulce de leche and vanilla.
- Increase the speed to medium-high and whip until light and fluffy (about 2 minutes).
- Top cupcakes with frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 379 kcal · Carbohydrates: 42 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 23 g · Saturated Fat: 15 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 67 mg · Sodium: 279 mg · Potassium: 44 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 34 g · Vitamin A: 573 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 62 mg · Iron: 1 mg
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$5 for a single cup cake?!? That’s crazy expensive! Yours look delicious! I’m not great at baking though so I’m not sure my attempts would come out so good 🙂
The cupcakes look delicious! What variations would you recommend if I were to try to make a round (Birthday) cake from this recipe? Thanks!
You can totally adapt this recipe to a round layered birthday cake. Follow the directions on the recipe blog post to make the cake batter. Then pour into the 8 or 9 inch round cake pans. It may only take about 20-25 minutes to bake or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. So watch it closely! (not sure on the bake time) Then follow the directions and finish up the cake!
Carmel cake mix is hard to find, so I settled for vanilla. Should I still mix the oil, sour cream, dulce de leche, etc. into the mix? Do you think it will be the taste good?
You should be fine with a vanilla cake mix. It won’t have quite the flavor that the butter pecan cake mix will have, but with the other ingredients it will add some flavor.
My frosting was too thin. How would I fix it?
Add more powdered sugar to thicken up your frosting.
First of all I have loved everything I have ever made from your posts. Is the dulce de leche the same can in both the cake and the frosting?
You will need 2 cans of dulce de leche for this recipe.
I made these today for my grandson’s 1st birthday “Fiesta”. They were a huge hit! Thank you. The recipe was easy to follow and fun to make.
Just to make sure … 2 CUPS (four sticks) of butter in the icing? I plan to make these this weekend!
I know it sounds like a lot, but yes -2 cups (4 sticks). YUM! Don’t count calories this weekend. 🙂
They no longer carry the caramel cake mix. I use the butter pecan cake mix which is sold at Walmart and it is delicious!
I use the butter pecan cake mix as the caramel cake mix is no longer available. You can buy the butter pecan cake mix at Walmart
Thanks Angela! Good to know.
Looks amazing, would this combo freeze well? I’d like to bake and frost mini cakes then freeze them.
These will freeze just fine in an airtight freezer container.