vanilla butterscotch cupcakes

(DROOL ALERT!) specifically, it's vanilla cupcakes with butterscotch icing. i have always loved the taste of brown/burnt sugar, ie caramel, toffee, butterscotch, gula melaka, gula anau etc. recently i was gushing over the butterscotch eclair at Saffron, hence the inspiration to marry two of my favourite flavours. i made up my own icing recipe, using my usual cream cheese icing with less butter mixed with butterscotch sauce i had made up earlier (again, a lets-just-toss-things-in-and-see-if-it-works recipe) . the result was a medium consistency icing, with the slightest tinge of caramel colour, and a delicate butterscotch taste coming through. i am quite proud of this creation. i finished it off with a sprinkling of brown sugar. from top, my bald bare vanilla cupcakes, then smothered in icing and lastly sprinkled with sugar.
nice, isn't it?