Champagne Frosting | Julie Blanner

My simple Champagne Buttercream Frosting provides a contact of magnificence to any dessert. This fluffy topping with a contact of champagne can flip any cookie, cake, or cupcake into the right addition for a celebration.

Whether or not it’s for a birthday, bridal bathe, New 12 months’s Eve, Valentine’s Day or an everyday Tuesday, this frosting will elevate any candy deal with into one thing really particular. 

This recipe begins with a easy American-style buttercream—unsalted butter and confectioner’s sugar—whipped into a lightweight and velvety frosting earlier than being flavored with vanilla and the champagne of your alternative. For this explicit recipe, I choose a rose champagne and a bit of crimson meals coloring to make it a fairly pink. However be at liberty to make use of your favourite bubbles and colour it in response to the event. 

I additionally love how versatile champagne icing is—whether or not I’m topping a basic vanilla cake, a wealthy chocolate cupcake, and even sugar cookies, the fragile floral notes of champagne takes this creamy frosting to the subsequent degree. 

Strive topping my Pink Champagne Cupcakes with this easy frosting and use the remainder of the open bottle of bubbles in my Champagne Margaritas.

Components

• Unsalted Butter — Softened butter creates the wealthy, creamy base for the frosting.
• Powdered Sugar — Sweetens the frosting whereas giving it construction and smoothness.
• Champagne or Glowing Wine — A dry Champagne works finest, you possibly can prepare dinner it down a bit earlier than including to accentuate the flavour. 
• Vanilla Extract — Provides heat and enhances the general taste.
• Meals Coloring (optionally available) — A drop of pale pink or gold may give the frosting a glamorous contact.

The Finest Champagne to Bake With

• Your favourite rosé! However really, any bubbles will do. No have to splurge.
• Brut Nature
• Additional Brut
• Brut
• Demi-Sec – medium dry
• Doux – candy

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