Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes

Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes are rich, moist chocolate cupcakes filled with homemade salted caramel and topped with fluffy whipped chocolate ganache. Add a caramel drizzle and flaky sea salt for the ultimate caramel-filled chocolate cupcake.

There are chocolate cupcakes, and then there are chocolate cupcakes with a gooey salted caramel center hiding inside.

And if we’re putting caramel inside a chocolate cupcake, we might as well go all in. There’s more chocolate in the whipped ganache on top, another drizzle of salted caramel, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

The whipped ganache is especially important here because it’s lighter and less sweet than chocolate buttercream, which is exactly what these caramel-filled cupcakes need.

For September’s Cupcake of the Month, I wanted to lean into fall flavors without pulling out the pumpkin just yet. Salted caramel felt like the perfect place to start, especially when it’s stuffed inside a chocolate cupcake and paired with even more chocolate on top.