Sparkling Wine and Pomegranate Cupcakes
This is a little late. I’ll be honest, I didn’t make these until this evening because I was busy this weekend hanging out with my sister in New York! But at work today I really wanted to make a cupcake again so I tossed together this recipe. I would have made some for Thanksgiving but my plane landed at noon on Thursday and my the time we finished cooking I was EXHAUSTED, so I really didn’t want to put effort into the dessert. Our dinner was beautiful though!
My sister Elizabeth made the potatoes (which were so delicious with scallions and parsley and garlic) and I made everything else. Elizabeth isn’t the best at following recipes – she tried to boil three whole, unpeeled potatoes because she didn’t read the ingredients list where it said “peel and dice” – so she did the pretty flower arrangement, took pictures, and kept the mood up! Plus potatoes take a lot of time to make that delicious.
I can’t believe all these ingredients plus more were for just 2 people.
It was just the two of us for dinner thursday, but it was lovely. We finished the night off with a family tradition of watching an animated movie – we actually watched two: Monsters University and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (both are awesome). Then we spent the rest of the weekend watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, eating more food, and going ice skating! Somehow, despite growing up in Michigan, I’ve never been on ice skates before.
In this picture, Elizabeth picks me up after I fall right on my butt
My butt is seriously still bruised.
But back to these cupcakes! I based them off this Sparkling Pomegranate Punch and it does indeed make a good cupcake.
sparkling pomegranate cupcakes
Also I forgot to get cupcake liners to I used aluminum foil. The results were the same. These are delicious, the pomegranate in the batter really kicks the flavor up a notch and the white chocolate frosting is perfect for these.
