Frugal Foodie Mama: desserts using champagne

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Sparkling Champagne Cookie-wiches

A rich champagne buttercream is sandwiched between two thick & soft sparkling sugared cookies in these Sparkling Champagne Cookie-wiches...




A rich champagne buttercream is sandwiched between two thick & soft sparkling sugared cookies in these Sparkling Champagne Cookie-wiches











Ever since I made my White Chocolate Peeps Cookiewiches for Easter earlier this year, I have kind of had a thing for coming up with decadent cookiewiches just for special occasions and holidays. 









My Easter cookiewiches were followed up a few months later by the Blue Velvet & Raspberry Buttercream Cookiewiches I made for the 4th of July. 









And since it has been over 5 months since I have posted a new cookie-wich recipe, I thought why not come up with one that would be perfect for celebrating New Year's Eve with? ;)









I had a vision in my head for exactly how I wanted these cookie-wiches to look, but I ran into one tiny snag- I couldn't find the exact sparkling gold and silver sugars I had pictured in my mind! I searched my local craft store and all the area grocery stores. I even searched Amazon to no avail. 









Then I remembered my good friends over at Chocoley and thought why not click on over there and take a look? And sure enough they had exactly what I was looking for in their Gold & Silver Sheen Metallic Sugar Crystals Set! Sparkling perfection, folks.









These Sparkling Champagne Cookie-wiches are rich, decadent, and fun, just like how every New Year's Eve celebration should be... :)













Friday, December 27, 2013

12 Champagne Spiked Recipes

These 12 Champagne Spiked Recipes are perfect for planning your New Year's Eve menu or for using up that leftover champagne after wards...




These 12 Champagne Spiked Recipes are perfect for planning your New Year's Eve menu or for using up that leftover champagne after wards.











If you happen to be anything like myself and my husband, we pick up a bottle of bubbly each year before New Year's Eve in anticipation of popping the cork at midnight and sipping on flutes of champagne until the bottle runs dry.








The reality?








I am lucky to make it to midnight without passing out on the couch first, and I rarely finish just one glass of bubbly at midnight. 
We undoubtedly will be left with half a bottle of champagne by the first morning of the New Year.