Valentine’s Day Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Frosting

So excited to share this recipe with you today! I made these Champagne Cupcakes for our Valentine’s Photo Shoot and they are so delicious! What a great way to celebrate with your loved ones!

This recipe is by Sprinkle Bakes. I followed the step by step but I skipped the Champagne Pastry Creme Filling or my husband and son would eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup champagne, prosecco or your choice of sparkling wine

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and mix. Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside. in a medium sized bowl, whisk together 1/2 cup champagne and 1/2 cup sour cream (mixture will fizz and bubble a little). Add flour and champagne mixture alternately, beginning and ending with flour. Batter will be thick.

Fill cupcake papers with 1/4 cup level measures of batter.Bake for 17-22 minutes.Set aside.

Champagne Frosting

1 cup plus 1 tbsp. champagne or prosecco
2 sticks of butter softened
2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar

Place 1 cup of champagne in a small saucepan. Simmer over medium-high heat until reduced to 2 tablespoons. Transfer to a small bowl or condiment cup and allow to cool.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, cream softened butter and powdered sugar together. Once the frosting is thick and fluffy, pour in the reduced 2 tbsp. champagne plus 1 tbsp. champagne from the bottle and mix well.

I frosted my cupcakes using a large star tip and decorated them using toothpicks and heart stickers. Can’t get any easier than that!

Enjoy!

xoxo

Andressa