Bubbly and cupcakes. Bubbly IN cupcakes?! Yes ✔️ please.

Perfect for NYE!

Cupcakes

• 1 box vanilla cake mix
• 1 cup champagne or Prosecco
• ½ cup oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon orange zest

Frosting

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar, divided
• ¼ cup champagne or Prosecco, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon orange zest
• Pinch kosher salt
• Gold sanding sugar, for garnish
• Orange wedges, for garnish

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line 18 muffin tins with cupcake liners.  In a large bowl beat cake mix with champagne, oil, eggs, and orange zest.  Fill cupcake liners ¾ full with batter.  Bake 18 minutes.  Let cool completely before frosting. 

Make frosting:  using an electric mixer beat butter and 2 cups of powdered sugar until fluffy.  Add champagne, vanilla, orange zest, and salt.  Beat until incorporated, then add remaining 2 cups powered sugar and mix until smooth and fluffy.  Frost cooled cupcakes.  Garnish with gold sanding sugar and garnish with orange wedges.

Original recipe from Delish.

Ashley Madden Rowton is a wife, mom, and contributor to Webster Parish, Natchitoches Parish, and Shreveport-Bossier journals, as well as a published cookbook author.