I love making cupcakes, but usually just stick to either Vanilla or Chocolate cake and then use various flavoured butter creams. I'd like to use flvoured cakes as a base, along with flavoured icings this time, but need ideas and well tested good recipes since I will be passing these out to co-workers and friends.

So far I'm thinking:

Spice cake with vanilla icing
Apple spice cake with some sort of caramel / brown sugar icing
Pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese icing

I've also thought about using a cinnamon butter cream on the above cakes flavours. What are your thoughts on these? Does anyone have any good recipes that they have tried and really loved??

hmmm

what about maple?

I had some maple spritz cookies from a pampered chef party YUM..anyone know how id make maple spritz??

I personally like the pumpkin spice with cream cheese frosting. yumm!!!

how about caramel apple?

one of my favorite flavors is pumpkin chocolate chip with cream cheese icing

hmm caramel apple sounds yummy!! do you have a recipe for that??

I am going to try the Martha Stewart pumpkin spice cupcake tonight..i will let you now how to turns out

No, i have no idea how to make caramel apple cupcakes! i just tohugt it'll be good! maybe you can cook some diced apples in brown sugar, butter cream etc to get a caramel sauce, and then fold that into a spice cake or something?
maybe they'll be recipes online too...I just never tried any so I cannot refer you to any.

I used this pumpkin recipe & the decorators cream cheese icing here on CC for these cupcakes.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Cake-III/Detail.aspx

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1286320

I was informed the teachers came close to fighting over them---I made various goodies & only 1 doz cupcakes.

There's also some yummy recipes here (not scratch though)

I made the Maple White Chocolate w/ caramel icing--really good.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4f9hbq_46cs9f28fs

Fall flavors go well w/ caramel, maple, cinnamon, cream cheese icings.

Well I think tomorrow I'll be making Pumpkin Spice with Cinnamon Cream Cheese icing and then probably just a vanilla spice cake with vanilla icing. I'd like to try the apple caramel, but maybe next week.

Does anyone have a really good recipe (moist is better!)

Also, I've seen bloggers post about caramel apple cupcakes, but the caramel icing is very liquidy - not at all piepable.

Does anyone have a recipe for that???

as soon as i read that i thought maple....but someone already said that haha.....then i thought of gingerbread...and how good that would be with a brown sugar cream cheese icing........i'm salivating...

For apple cupcakes use a carrot cake recipe and sub diced apples for the carrots. You can fold a little caramel sauce into buttercream to make a nice caramel buttercream. Yummy--also good with cream cheese icing, rum or whiskey buttercream.

omg TitiaM......RUM BUTTERCREAM???...i think i may have just died and went to heaven.....do tell...anyone know a recipe for a COKE cupcake to go w/ that?????? lol

how about an applesauce cake with carmel icing? They have recipes all over the net. Just google it.

For the caramel filling, why couldn't you add some LorAnn Caramel Flavoring to say a whipped topping or white chocolate mouse. LorAnn has wonderful flavorings. Just a thought.

Why not make an applebutter spice cupcake and top it with dulce de leche then decorate with apple chips or pecans?

I just made pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese cupcakes and i also made pumpkin chocolate chip with orange tinted buttercream. They tasted great!!!