caramel cake

Patrick asked for a caramel cake or apple pie for his birthday dessert

and I stumbled upon this wonderful caramel cake recipe from

Smitten Kitchen {here} - the other recipes look delicious too!

To save time, I used a yellow cake mix instead of the homemade cake

Then poured the caramel glaze overtop after the cake had cooled...

Caramel Glaze:

1 cup heavy cream, 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar, 1 tbsp light corn syrup, and 1 tsp vanilla

Bring cream, sugar, corn syrup and a pinch of salt to a boil over medium heat

stirring until sugar is dissolved.

Continue boil until glaze reaches 210 degrees (about 12-14 mins)

(I didn't boil it hot enough and the glaze wasn't as thick as I wanted)

then add the vanilla

Pour hot glaze over the yellow cake, letting it drape over the sides

Cool for about 30 minutes to set the glaze.

It is so tasty, especially when warmed in the microwave a few seconds*

I'm going to make some more caramel glaze today

and pour it over honey crisp apples :) mmmmm...