[Photograph: Jason Wyche]

The Super Bowl is actually a great excuse to bake one of the less manly desserts: cupcakes. There's no denying that these individually portioned cakes are a great choice for a crowd, and if you choose this salty-sweet recipe from the Butch Bakery Cookbook, they're football-watching appropriate too.

These Tailgate Cupcakes are the holy trinity of salted caramel: salted caramel cake filled with yes, salted caramel, topped with salted caramel, and finished with a shower of crunchy coarse grained salt. In other words, perfect washed down with a beer.

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