Champagne Cupcakes with Kir Royale Frosting

Champagne Cupcakes with Kir Royale Frosting


Layla is watching this cupcake very closely! The recipe for this cupcake is from Crazy About Cupcakes by Krystina Castella.

Champagne Cupcakes with Kir Royale Frosting


When I made the frosting I added some Creme de Cassis to the champagne to make it more like a Kir Royale...my fav drink!

Here's the recipe:

Champagne Cupcakes (I got 20 cupcakes out of this recipe)

Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
3/4 cup champagne (the sweeter the better – even strawberry would be great!!)
6 egg whites

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 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 1/3 of the whites into batter to lighten it, then fold in remaining egg whites. Fill the cupcake liners about 2/3 full.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

Champagne Buttercream Icing

Ingredients:
3/4 cup vegetable shortening
1-1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
3 tablespoons champagne (I did two tablespoons champagne and 1 tablespoon Creme de Cassis)
4-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directors:
In a large bowl beat the shortening and butter until combined. Add the champagne. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar and beat until smooth. If necessary, add additional champagne to achieve desired consistency.

Hope you have a great week...and so does Layla!

CQ

You Can Be Queen of Everything...Even Cupcake Boxes!


I just love these "Queen of the Kitchen" cupcake boxes from The Mary Engelbreit Store!


They hold four standard cupcakes!


There are four different boxes that you can buy:


Layla and I hope you have a great week....CQ

Holy Moley, Captain Marvel! This Gadget Makes Perfect Holes in My Cupcakes!


Every so often I get a request to review a new cupcake related item or book. This particular item by Cuisipro is called "Cupcake Corer & Decorating Set"...and I will say that it did an awesome job at coring my cupcakes! The Cupcake Queen gives this set a big "Thumbs UP!"


This is what it looks like when you pull the corer out of the cupcake.


You can see that every cupcake was cored perfectly!




Then I added the lemon curd to the little decorator thingie....


The I squeezed the curd into the perfect cupcake holes!



This is what the set looks like.

I loved it and it worked so well that I can't wait until I do my next "stuffed cupcakes! Click here to check it out online! Hope you like it, too!

Have a great week, CQ and the Lovely Layla!