Happy New Year...

and how can you celebrate the New Year without champagne??  Well, this year I tried a new recipe - champagne mini cupcakes.  They were different.  Not your regular cupcake.  The texture was a little more dense than a regular cupcake and the icing was a bit sweeter - I know... how can the icing be sweeter??  But it was.  It had just that hint of champagne in it and a bit of the alcoholish aftertaste.  

Of course for the kids that were at the party, they got the non alcoholic version, just in chocolate!  They were good as well, just your classic yellow sponge with chocolate buttercream.  You can never go wrong with that!