I had recently bought Sally’s Baking Addiction and easily got mesmerized at all the pretty colors in the book. (You have too, right?) She has a lot of tasty looking cupcake recipes so I headed on over to her blog to see if she had something that could work.
Of course she did! She’s apparently as much of avid butterscotch lover as Calvin is, so it only made sense to use her recipe.
- 1 ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. baking soda
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- ¾ cup milk (I used skim)
- ¼ cup yogurt (I used plain Greek)
- 1 tbsp. vanilla
for the butterscotch sauce:
- 4 tbsp. unsalted butter
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. salt
for the vanilla frosting:
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 2 ½ tsp. vanilla
- ¼ tsp. salt
My husband is a huge butterscotch fan, too! These look delicious!