I planned on making these for a family cookout this past Saturday. I live in a very small town. There is a slightly less small town about 12 miles away and it has a Food Lion. Friday night I found most of my ingredients, even a vanilla bean, which I had never bought before, lol... They didn't have Skor or squeeze bottles...grrrr!
Went to a couple more stores, Super Dollar, Dollar General, no luck finding either item....grrrr! Finally stopped at a smaller convenience store on the way home thinking they might atleast have Skor, but I ended up having to get Heath..which is okay, but what was I going to do without the squeeze bottle??
Anyway, I was venting to my mom, as we were grocery shopping together and when we got back to her house she started digging through kitchen drawers to see what she could find. She found a miniature turkey baster (don't ask me why she has this). I thought it might work but the tip wasn't pointy enough. But figuring I'd make it work somehow, I headed home!
So what I ended up doing was letting the cupcakes cool a bit then cutting a small hole in the top and pulling out a "plug"...I used the mini turkey baster to squirt the caramel into the cupcake and then stuck the "plug" back in. Once iced you couldn't tell the cupcake had been defaced and they turned out DELICIOUS!! I got many compliments on them at the cookout! I also just drizzled the caramel off of a regular teaspoon onto the top of the cupcakes. I guess if I'd not had the turkey baster I would have done the same thing to get the caramel inside the cupcake. All in all it took a little more time, but still worked out great!!