Name: Champagne Cupcakes With Sweet Champagne Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 20
Ingredients: For Cupcake:; 2¾ cups all-purpose flour; 3 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp salt; ⅔ cup butter; 1½ cups white sugar; ¾ cup champagne; 6 egg whites; For Sweet Champagne Buttercream Frosting:; 3¼ cups powdered sugar; 1 cup butter; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 3 tbsp champagne

Champagne Cupcakes With Sweet Champagne Buttercream Frosting Recipe

How To Make Champagne Cupcakes With Sweet Champagne Buttercream Frosting

Enjoy a bottle of bubbly in a dessert form with these champagne cupcakes. The cake is light and fluffy and the frosting is just sinfully delicious too.

Preparation: 5 minutes

Cooking: 20 minutes

Total: 25 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

For Cupcake:

2¾cupsall-purpose flour
3tspbaking powder
1tspsalt
⅔cupbutter
1½cupswhite sugar
¾cupchampagne,(the sweeter the better)
6egg whites

For Sweet Champagne Buttercream Frosting:

3¼cupspowdered sugar
1cupbutter,at room temperature
½tspvanilla extract
3tbspchampagne,at room temperature

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a cupcake pan with liners.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together, and then blend into creamed mixture alternately with champagne.
In another large clean bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold ⅓ of the whites into batter to lighten it, then fold in remaining egg whites. Fill the cupcake liners about ⅔ full.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

Frosting:

With an electric mixer, beat together sugar and butter. Mix on low until well blended, and then on medium for another 2 minutes.
Add vanilla and champagne, beating on medium for 1 more minute.