Ice Cream Cupcake Round-Up Caramel Apple Pie a la mode

Hooray! I have just finished my first challenge/round-up. The Cupcake Project is hosting this challenge along with Scoopalicious. I tried my hand at creating Carmel Apple Pie a la mode.

I started out with a base from Crazy About Cupcakes. I thought that the caramel apple cupcake would be a great base...



Then I added some ice cream....caramel swirl to be exact....
I let the ice cream soften a bit, piped it on and then smoothed it out (I will save you the image of the slightly "poopy" appearance after the initial "deposit" of ice cream, at least it wasn't chocolate.....

And then a simple cream cheese frosting.....

Drum roll.... final product




They definitely came out ok. Nothing amazing, probably not a "make again". In hindsight there are a few things that I would change. They were totally tasty, and my tasters had no complaints, but in the future I would choose a stronger base. Maybe a hearty vanilla or a brownie-ish chocolate. The apple caramel lost a bit of flavor in the freezing translation. It maybe better to experiment with the ice cream and frosting versus the cupcake base. I would also firmly make this a two-day or early morning late afternoon project rather than an evening attempt like I tried. You need some time for the ice cream to set before you add the frosting. Room temperature frosting to, not-so-set ice cream results in some soupyness as you get to the end of tray. I will say that I was very pleased with how the frosting turned out, it was creamy and delicious. I tend to have frostings that are going great and then will suddenly split on me or start burning out the motor on my mixer so it was a nice surprise.

Tada! first real post!

Let me know if there is anything else that I should include in the future.