Monday, July 16, 2012

{Recipe Recap} Champagne Cupcakes

The alternate title for this post is “Brunch and Buns.”  I made the cupcakes for Jari, a friend who organized a brunch-and-a-movie outing for us girls.  We ate at Mia Francesca and then went to a Magic Mike matinee.  The former was slightly disappointing but I assure you, the latter was anything but!

We got together on Sunday, July 1st and Jari’s birthday was the following day.  I offered to make the treat of her choice for the group and she immediately came back with, “Champagne cupcakes.”  So off to the internet I went to find a recipe and a random search turned up a recipe by a blogger I already read regularly.

I was excited to finally use my flower cupcake liners.

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I mean, do these things scream “girls going to see half-naked men on the big screen” or what?

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When I went shopping for the champagne/sparkling wine, I picked a couple different bottles off the shelf before settling on the PERFECT one: a Prosecco by Cupcake Vineyards.

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These cupcakes have three parts – the cake, a pastry crème filling, and the frosting – and all three parts have champagne in them.  I’m not sure that flavor itself stood out very strongly, but I felt like it was detectable if you knew it was there and it tempered the sweetness of the treat.

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I’m really glad Jari knew exactly what she wanted and that it was something different for me to whip up.

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Flowers full of sugar and alcohol, not a half-bad way to start the week, right?

As usual, the weekend flew by.  I was up at 7:00 Saturday morning so that I could run 12 miles per my training schedule and ended up doing 12.5.  I really need to map my routes before I get started…  I was really sore after last week’s 10.5-mile run, but I felt much better after this weekend’s run. 

We had some overnight guests (more on that later this week) and then the McHusband and I played hooky from our usual Sunday responsibilities like spin class and saw a matinee showing of Ted.  We both liked the movie enough, but we’re glad we didn’t pay nighttime prices for it.

{Champagne Cupcakes}

1 comment:

McMom said...

Those are really PRETTY and so are your photos! McMom