Nate’s family is coming over for New Years Day to exchange gifts with us from Christmas. I decided to break out the Crazy Cupcakes from a Box series and make something spectacular! My, oh my, did these cupcakes come out amazing! They would be perfect for any grown up special occasion or Valentine’s Day.
Curious what I came up with? It started out with champagne cupcakes. Then, I filled them with a homemade raspberry curd. To top them off, I made a champagne buttercream frosting and added a couple of tablespoons of raspberry curd to it. Doesn’t that sound heavenly? They taste as delicious as they sound!! Though, I’m not sure on the official name as the description is a bit long. How about Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes?
These might just be the best ones from this series, so far. For one, I discovered my love of raspberry curd. I love berries — probably just about any kind of berry. I love them! I’ve made lemon curd before, but never a berry curd. Remember those Lemon BlueBerry Mascarpone cupcakes? Those were filled with lemon curd that just added the perfect tartness to them, but this time around I decided these cupcakes needed something both “sweet” and “tart.”
I had both frozen and fresh raspberries on hand (and blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries, too. I’m telling you I’m addicted to berries), so I found a super easy raspberry curd recipe I adapted. Other recipes had double boilers and wanted you to let the berries sit dripping their juices, blah, blah, blah. Not this one, you just throw it all in a pan and make it, smush out the fruit and seeds with a strainer, and then Voila – you have delicious sweet and tart raspberry curd. Oh my is it good!!
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Champagne Cupcakes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
Ingredients
- 1 Super Moist – white box cake mix
- 3 egg whites
- 1/3 cup of oil
- 3/4 cup of water
- 1/2 cup of champagne
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Mix ingredients until moistened. Then mix on Medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Prepare cupcake tins with liners
- Fill each cupcake liner 2/3 full.
- Bake 15 minutes. Check to make sure they’re done.
- Allow to cool before coring out 1 inch of the center to prepare for raspberry curd.
- Fill each center core with raspberry curd.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes

Champagne Cupcakes with Raspberry Curd – Happy New Year
- Total Time: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups 1x
Description
This was adapted from a lovely raspberry lemon cake recipe I found. Here is the original recipe for the curd. It is the easiest one I’ve found.
Ingredients
- 12 oz Frozen Raspberries
- 5 large egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 stick butter
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the raspberries, lemon juice, egg yolks, sugar, and salt and cook, mashing the berries and stirring frequently at first and them constantly at the end, until thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Towards the end, at about 7-8 minutes or so, add the cornstarch.
- Pour the mixture through a coarse strainer set over a bowl, pressing hard on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible.
- Cool to room temperature for several hours; the curd will continue to thicken as it cools.
- Refrigerate, covered, until ready to serve, or for up to 1 month.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
You couldn’t really taste the champagne in the cake, so I decided to really booze up these amazing cupcakes, by adding champagne directly to the buttercream frosting. Then, I decided a little bit of the raspberry curd to flavor would make it just divine! The frosting came out rich and heavenly! I could probably just eat it with a spoon!
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Raspberry Champagne Buttercream Frosting
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: Enough for 24 cupcakes 1x
Description
This is not an exact recipe. Add more sugar until you get the consistency desired. If it gets too dry, add a bit more cream if needed. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 sticks of butter, softened
- 1/2 cup of champagne
- 4–5 cups of powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp whipping cream
- 2 tbsp homemade raspberry curd
Instructions
- Beat the butter until smooth and creamy.
- Add 2 cups of powdered sugar and beat until well combined.
- Add whipping cream, champagne, raspberry curd and beat until combined.
- Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time until you get the consistency you desire.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
Enjoy!! I hope you and your family have a wonderful new year to come!!
8 comments
Too funny, I made Raspberry Champagne cupcakes for a party tonight and they’ll be on the blog tomorrow. Our recipes are very different but I bet they both taste amazing! Happy New Year!
Lol! I can’t wait to check yours out tomorrow!
Oooh I wish had seen this post before going to the grocery store today! Definitely saving for later because these look YUMMY!
These look so delicious. They would be perfect for Valentine’s Day!
That is pin worthy! I can’t wait to try these. Thanks for the recipe.
Very pretty presentation.
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Another marvelous cupcake recipe doll! Love these! Pinning! Have a terrific weekend!