Whether you’re gearing up for New Year’s Eve, planning a bridal shower, or celebrating another milestone, these easy Champagne Cupcakes could be the perfect addition to your celebration.
While they include a vanilla buttercream frosting, I have suggestions for how to tweak it for champagne frosting. That’s a great way to kick it up another notch and add more champagne flavor.
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Champagne Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 box of White Cake Mix
- 1 cup of Pink Champagne
- 1/3 cup of butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- White Frosting of Your Choice (I’d recommend this light and airy vanilla frosting recipe, but I’ll give you a tip later for making it a champagne buttercream frosting)
- Gold and Silver Sprinkles
- Cupcake Liners (here are gold cupcake liners, which are super cute with the gold and silver sprinkles)
- Piping Bag and Icing Tip
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Champagne Cupcake Directions
1. Add your cake mix, softened butter, eggs, and champagne into a large mixing bowl.
2. Mix the ingredients with a hand or stand mixer on high until well blended.
3. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 and bake according to the temperature and timing on your cake mix’s box instructions.
4. All your cupcakes to cool completely.
5. Make your favorite white frosting recipe. As I said earlier, I love this light and airy homemade vanilla buttercream frosting.
Want to make champagne buttercream frosting? If you want to tweak that recipe to make a champagne buttercream frosting, you could try substituting the milk (or most of the milk) in the light and airy vanilla buttercream frosting recipe for champagne (or pink champagne). While I haven’t tried it, that seems pretty in line with what I have seen from champagne buttercream frosting recipes online.
6. Frost your cooled cupcakes and top with gold and/or silver sprinkles. For a lovely look, you could add gold sprinkles to half and silver sprinkles to the other half.
Easy Champagne Cupcakes – Printable Recipe
- 1 box of White Cake Mix
- 1 cup of Pink Champagne
- ⅓ cup of butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- White Frosting of Your Choice (I'd recommend this light and airy vanilla frosting recipe: https://www.reallifeathome.com/light-and-airy-homemade-vanilla/)
- Gold and Silver Sprinkles
- Cupcake Liners
- Piping Bag and Icing Tip
- Add your cake mix, softened butter, eggs, and champagne into a large mixing bowl.
- Mix the ingredients with a hand or stand mixer on high until well blended.
- Fill cupcake liners ⅔ and bake according to the temperature and timing on your cake mix's box instructions.
- All your cupcakes to cool completely.
- Make your favorite white frosting recipe. I recommend the light and airy homemade vanilla buttercream frosting. (See the notes section on how to modify that recipe to make a champagne buttercream frosting.)
- Frost your cooled cupcakes and top with gold and/or silver sprinkles. For a lovely look, you could add gold sprinkles to half and silver sprinkles to the other half.
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Hey Angie, your blog is very nice. I like to drink champagne, but I never heard before about champagne cupcake. But I will try to make this at home. Thanks and keep sharing!