Julia Gabriel's Blog - Posts Tagged "chardonnay"

The Cupcakery in my forthcoming book, Cupcakes & Chardonnay, might be fictional ... but the Iris Cupcake isn't! Best of all, it has wine in it. As another Julia—Child— once said, "I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking."

Enjoy!


Iris Cupcakes
(named after Iris Catterton, from Cupcakes & Chardonnay by Julia Gabriel)

Ingredients

2/3 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1-1/2 cups sugar
2-3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons baking powder
6 egg whites
3/4 cup chardonnay

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter and sugar in large bowl.
3. Sift together dry ingredients: flour, salt and baking powder.
4. Add dry ingredients and chardonnay to butter-sugar mixture. Alternate dry ingredients with the chardonnay. Mix until smooth.
5. In another bowl, beat egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
6. Gently fold egg whites into cupcake batter.
7. Line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners (preferably pretty ones!). With a spoon, drop batter into each liner.
8. Bake in oven 20 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center of cupcake comes out clean.
9. Frost with your favorite icing!

Makes 20-24 cupcakes