Wine Party ... Sparkling Wine Cupcakes With Sparkling Wine Butter Cream

Onto the Cake and Cupcakes for the Wine party. As it turns out my bestie's birthday is right before mom's and guess what type of party she was having? OH yes you guessed it a wine party! PERFECT time to try out a recipe I was making the follow weekend for my mom's party! I came across this AMAZING recipe for Sparkling Wine Cupcakes With Sparkling Wine Butter Cream on Food.com's Website. NOW the frosting I had to tweak when I did mom's since the weather has been crazy hot here and I needed something sturdy so I used my Sturdy Buttercream Frosting and added a little of the wine into it.

I have never gotten so MANY compliments on a recipe before this one was a HIT!

What you need:

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cup sparkling wine, room temperature
• 6 egg whites

Butter Cream

• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 2 cups butter, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 -6 tablespoons sparkling wine, room temperature

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F Prepare a cupcake pan with paper forms.
2. 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 sparkling wine.
3. 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.
4. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
5. Make Butter Cream: With an electric mixer, beat together sugar and butter (or margarine). Mix on low until well blended, and then on medium for another two minutes. Add vanilla and champagne, beating on medium for another minute. Frost cupcakes!

For the Cake I doubled the recipe and baked for 35-40 minutes. I found that the Middle Sister Bubbly Sweet White Wine was fabulous and had a perfect flavor for the cake.

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Wine Cork Centerpiece (Numbers or Monogram)

I saw an amazing wine cork monogram done by Popular with the Poplins. I thought what a perfect idea to do for my mom's surprise 60th birthday party. A few things I learned: 1) it takes a LOT of corks to do these big #'s I thought 250 would be plenty turned out only covered the 0 and one line on the 6. I believe it took me around 375 to do both #'s. 2) Instead of buying them off Amazon (WHICH was actually the cheapest I found) you can go to Total Wine and More and get them FREE. Bring a bag to the store and they will fill it up with all the corks you want ... YES FOR FREE!!! Oh yes I wish I would have known that in the beginning and saved me $64! OR put a SOS on Facebook I found that a TON of my friends are wino's and have a bunch ... LOL!

What you need:

Corks (I bought 2 packs fo 250 for $32 a pack)

Wood Letters or Numbers (Hobby Lobby $12.99 Each)

Hot Glue Gun and a TON of Glue Sticks

I took my glue gun and put a glob at the end of the cork (I used the wine stained side up to give the piece some character). I started on the inside and worked my way out. It doesn't have to be perfect put them together with little gaps I found looked the best. It's going to take some time so make yourself comfy!

I must say even though they were a bit spendy to make I LOVE them!
Next time I'll hit up the FREE cork route and it would ONLY cost under $30!

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Wine Bottle Birthday Invite

My mom turned 60 this past Saturday, for the last 2+ months I have been planning a surprise birthday party for her. I went with a wine theme and went on the search for the perfect invite to make for her. I found a Wine bottle template on Printable Treats, they have several to choose from. I printed at 95% size to be able to fit into the envelope I bought.

What you need:

Thick Cardstock (I picked a brown w/ grain)

Cork Paper (I used on the back of invite)

Twine (I added for texture)

Thick Card stock (for the invite part)

Hot Glue

Craft Glue

I printed the two per sheet invites onto my thick cardstock in the brown with grain paper. I then added cork paper on the back to give it a wine theme. I then added the wording on the front, using craft glue. I then added the twin to the top and bottom of the wording. Then I wrapped it around the top of the bottle to make it look like the cork part, attaching with hot glue.  All these supplies were brought at hobby lobby on sale!

Wording:

Cookie's (mom's nick name) turn sixty and still loves surprises. So join us as we are organizing a surprise birthday party in her honor.

I took a word doc and made the size of the insert, I then put as many as I could per a sheet and printed on card stock. I then cut to fit on the bottle invite.

I must say I loved these invites!

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Planning a Wine Party!!!

My mom is turning 60 this coming weekend, so I've been working for a few months on putting together a surprise party for her. She loves wine and gardening so I tossed around several ideas for a while and came to a wine themed party (yes you all that follow me know I'm a sucker for a themed party). I'm putting it all together right now a few things of course will have to do the day before and the day of but I'm working on the things I can do leading up to Saturday.

Here's a sneak peak of what I've been working on so far.

I started a 60 out of wood covered in corks!

Who would have thought 250 corks would NOT be enough (waiting on more .. yikes)

Chalk painted wine glasses

What's a wine party with out wine!

Without going broke I hit up Grocery Outlet and saved $225.21!! whoo hoo!

And of course the wine themed invitations!

I put cork paper on the back to tie in the theme!

I love how they turned out!

Hope you're all having a great week!

Caramel Stuffed Snickerdoodle Cookies

And last on our cookie list this week was for my bestie's birthday!  She LOVES Snickerdoodles and I try to find different versions to make for her birthday. I've made Snickerdoodle Cupcakes with Cinnamon Swirl Frosting, Pumpkin Snickerdoodles and Mrs. Sigg’s Snickerdoodle Whoopie Pies. And Now I came across Caramel Stuffed Snickerdoodle Cookies on Yellow Bliss Road. 

I saved one cookie each for my boys and the loved them, my husband of course just wanted the caramel's .. lol. The only thing I came across was the caramel is nice a gooey out of the oven but after time it goes back to it's hard form. I doubled the recipe and as usual my cookies where a little on the LARGE side. I may need to invest in that scoop to make smaller perfect shaped cookies!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 18 caramels, unwrapped
• For Rolling:
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a large bowl cream together the butter and 1 cup of sugar. Add egg and vanilla and beat until blended.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Add to the wetingredients and mix well until a nice dough forms.
4. Mix 1/4 cup sugar and 1 Tbsp cinnamon together in a shallow dish and set aside.
5. Divide dough and roll into balls about 2 Tbsp in size. (Using a cookie scoop is very helpful for this). Flatten each ball of dough with the palm of your hand and place a caramel in the center. Wrap the dough completely around the caramel and roll into a ball again. Roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture and place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
6. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool on cookie sheets for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cook completely.
7. Store in a tightly sealed container for up to one week. Do not refrigerate as it will harden the caramel.

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Cream Cheese filled Snickerdoodles

Next on my cookie list was a request for some Snickerdoodles. Rick's buddy has been putting in all his extra time to help us with the house remodel and won't take money. So next best thing home cooked dinners and COOKIES! I asked his favorite and wanted to do something special with them I found on Cookies and Cups a recipe for Cream Cheese filled Snickerdoodles. 

He said these were the BEST cookies, I was good with my diet and didn't try at all but they sure smelled amazing!

Ingredients

Cookies

• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 cup room temp butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2¾ cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon

Filling

• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla

Instructions

1. Make the cream cheese filling by mixing the cream cheese, ¼ cup sugar and 2 tsp vanilla. I used my hand mixer for this.
2. Cover the cream cheese mixture and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 400°
4. Cream butter and 1½ cup sugar until fluffy.
5. Add eggs and 1 tsp vanilla. Mix until combined.
6. On low speed mix in your flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Set dough to the side.
7. In a small bowl combine remaining ¼ cup sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon, set that aside as well.
8. Remove the cream cheese mixture from the refrigerator.
9. For each cookie you will need 2 flattened balls of dough, 1 Tbsp each. (The flattened disk will be approx 2" in diameter)
10. Place 1 tsp of the cream cheese mixture on top of one of the flattened dough disks. Then place the other flattened dough on top of the cream cheese. Pinch the edges together to seal.
11. Carefully form into a ball and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place on a plate as you finish making each and refrigerate. Before baking the cookies they should chill for 15 minutes.
12. When the dough is chilled bake on a parchment lined baking sheet 2" apart for 8 minutes.
13. Transfer to wire rack to cool.

makes 24 cookies

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