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Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes

posted on : January 18, 2019 posted by : Kirsten Bell 1 Comment
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Valentine’s Day may still be a month away, but it’s never too early to start planning your Valentine’s Day desserts! Enter easy strawberry champagne cupcakes! This is a delicious champagne cupcake, made with actual champagne and a champagne extract for a little extra flair. Then topped with delicious strawberry buttercream, because champagne is always better with strawberries, right? And yes, these are as awesome as they sound!

strawberry champagne cupcakes
 

Even though these strawberry champagne cupcakes were originally a Valentine’s Day dessert, they would also be a wonderful bridal shower treat served alongside poured champagne, for a special girls night dessert, or birthday cake idea! Basically any time you’d serve champagne, why not also serve champagne cupcakes, you only live once!

 

easy champagne cupcakes

 

I feel like any celebration is just not complete without champagne, it just feels necessary! So above all, I wanted these cupcakes to be delicious and really taste like champagne. As for the strawberries, that’s a pretty natural pairing! I love their pops of bright and fresh fruit flavor in the buttercream, and how pretty sliced strawberries look as garnish.

 

strawberry champagne cupcakes

A Quick Note On Champagne For Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes:

 
You do not need to spend a lot of money to get a nice bottle of sparkling wine, especially not if you plan to bake with it. There are plenty of delicious $10-$15 bottles out there! My general rule of thumb when cooking or baking with alcohol is that if you wouldn’t enjoy drinking it on its own, don’t use it. My go-to champagne for these (and pouring a glass of bubbles for myself to enjoy!) is Gruet Brut!
 

Tools Used To Make Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes:

  • A good hand mixer! I’ve owned this hand mixer for over 10 years, and it’s still going strong. Totally worth the investment. I love the 9 speeds, and that it’s so quiet. My kiddo can be sleeping on the couch right off the kitchen and it won’t wake her up!
  • Mixing Bowls: I love this nesting mixing bowl set. There’s a perfect size for every task, and I love that they store so compact – a total necessity for my small kitchen.
  • A good cupcake tin! This is a tool where the quality makes a huge difference! I love this cupcake tin to bake my cupcakes and muffins, because the material conducts heat really evenly. That means we get evenly baked and moist baked goods! Yay!
 

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Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes

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  • Author: Kirsten Bell
  • Prep Time: 15 Minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 Minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 12 Cupcakes 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baking
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Description

These strawberry champagne cupcakes are easy, delicious and perfect for any celebration!

Ingredients

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Champagne Cake Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cups cane sugar
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon LorAnn Sparkling wine extract
1/3 cup sparkling wine
1/4 cup buttermilk

Strawberry Buttercream Ingredients: 

1 cup butter, softened

3 cups powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

3 teaspoons strawberry extract

3 strawberries, very finely diced

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 and line a muffin tin with liners (how cute are these champagne cupcake liners?). Combine flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl and set aside. Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add extracts, egg, yolk, champagne and buttermilk, mixing to combine. The batter may look piecy at this stage, which is ok! Slowly add flour mixture to the wet ingredients, and mix until just combined. Pour batter into liners and bake for 14-16 minutes.

For the buttercream: Whip the butter in your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and extracts, mixing on low speed until the powdered sugar is incorporated. Then increase speed to high for about 3-4 minutes. Gently stir in the strawberry, if using. Frost and decorate with sprinkles, and a quartered strawberry! I also love these metallic sprinkles!

Notes

Be sure to use a big frosting tip to frost the cupcakes, to avoid the strawberry pieces getting stuck!

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1 COMMENT

  1. Anonymous | 3rd Oct 19

    How many cupcake does this make?

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