Neapolitan, Triple Chocolate, Rolo, and Heath Toffee

Note: when making multiple flavors of cupcake, there is the likelihood that you will end up eating one of each. We made four types of cupcakes for a party: Neapolitan, Rolo, Triple Chocolate, and Heath Toffee cupcakes. The Neapolitan cupcakes consisted of a marble cake with fresh strawberry frosting. We topped them off with a strawberry and chocolate pretzel.  The Triple Chocolate cupcake is for serious chocolate lovers. It consists of a chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache, chocolate frosting, and topped with a chocolate pretzel.  The Heath Toffee mini cupcakes are a vanilla cake with Heath Toffee bits, chocolate frosting, and Ghiradelli milk chocolate candy.

Rolo Cupcakes
A chocolate cupcake with a baked Rolo center, caramel frosting, chocolate ganache and Rolo topping.

• Chocolate cake
  1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk
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Caramel frosting

4 sticks unsalted butter
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup caramel syrup
1 1/2 pounds confectioners’ sugar

Chocolate ganache
4 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped into very small pieces
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons honey 
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla