Mimosa Cupcakes

I found these delicious cupcakes one day while browsing the nest for decorating ideas.
These are my favorite cupcakes I have made this year, and if you're counting I've made 17 other cupcakes up until now.
I LOVE Mimosas. Our love story began when I was living with my HLM, Maddy, and watching Desperate Housewives every Sunday before our school and work weeks began. We decided that we needed to up our classy factor since most of the time we were sitting on a twin bed that we turned into a couch and wearing our pajamas that looked nothing like the scimpy lingerie that Gabby was wearing every Sunday. Mimosas became our Sunday evening tradition.
I was pretty skeptical of this recipe but was more than willing to try it. First of all, how could a cupcake ever be as good as a cupcake? Second of all, it was found on a random newly-wed website, who knows where they get these from?! I am happy to say that all of my doubts were never confirmed. This cupcake was a moist citrusy-champagne taste of Heaven. As a point of reference, Mr. T's co-workers would now like me to bake both these and the Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes that started my cupcake insanity so that they can do a side by side comparison.

You'll want to start with a sweet champagne, it can be an inexpensive bottle.

Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form

The Batter

This recipe yields around 20, I got 22.

I figured that it would only be appropriate to drink a mimosa while baking mimosa cupcakes...

I would recommend making this recipe in the winter when it's easier to find ripe oranges, like in your backyard if you're me.

Brush the still-warm cupcakes with champagne for an extra kick of flavor.

Making the orange curd

Champagne Buttercream Frosting, aka the Mother of all Buttercreams

I refridgerated the orange-curd for a little extra to make it stand up a bit better.

Don't mind the dab of chocolate cupcake batter that got onto one of them.... Ooops

It was a pretty hot day, the buttercream doesn't like the heat.

Pretty pink sparkles to distract the eye from the melting frosting and orange curd.

I love people that let me put pictures of them eating on this blog :) Thanks Holly

You'd look like this if you got ignored every Saturday night and didn't even get to try a cupcake for your suffering.