My January entry in the Iron Cupcake Challenge, featuring “Wine”! These delightful Peach Wine Cupcakes are made on a sweet shortbread crust and topped with a mouthwatering swirl of cream cheese frosting.
The cupcake I came up with is a peach wine cupcake with a shortbread cookie crust topped with a light cream cheese frosting. It is light, fruity and has a peachy, citrus flavor. A little like a cross between peach cheesecake and a lemon square. Try it and you’ll love it.
Preheat oven to 350
Crust:
4 T. melted butter
1 1/3 c. shortbread cookies, crushed ~ I used Lorna Doone and it was about 1 1/4 sleeves of cookies
1. Combine cookie crumbs and butter.
2. Press approx. 1 Tablespoon in each cupcake liner. Will make approx 24 cupcakes. Reserve any extra for garnish
Set aside 
Cupcake:
1 1/2 flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter ~ softened
3 eggs
1/4 cup Peach wine ~ I used Arbor Mist
2 tsp orange zest
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup pureed canned peaches (drain first) 
1. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. Beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly in between each.
4. Add wine, orange zest and pureed peaches, mix well.
5. Add dry ingredients and milk, alternately starting and ending with flour mix. Pour batter into each cup on top of cookie crust. Fill almost full, as the batter doesn’t rise that much. 
Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 until toothpick comes out clean 
Icing:
16 oz. cream cheese
2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/4 cup heavy cream
Add ingredients into mixer with whisk fitting. Beat mix at high speed until semi-stiff peaks form. Ice cupcakes when cooled and garnish with any leftover crumble from crust.
If you’re interested in competing in the challenge next month click on the link in the right column of my blog or go to Iron Cupcake Earth
Sweet Peach Wine Cupcakes
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 24 cupcakes 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These delightful Peach Wine Cupcakes are made with sweet chardonnay and peach puree on a crunchy shortbread crust, topped with a swirl of cream cheese frosting!
Ingredients
For the Crust:
- 4 T. melted butter
- 1 1/3 c. shortbread cookies, crushed (I used Lorna Doone, about 1 1/4 sleeves of cookies)
For the Cupcakes:
- 1 1/2 flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 t salt
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter ~ softened
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup Peach wine ~ I used Arbor Mist
- 2 tsp orange zest
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3/4 cup pureed canned peaches (drain first)
For the Icing:
- 16 oz. cream cheese
- 2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/4 cup heavy cream
Instructions
To Make the Crust:
1. Combine cookie crumbs and butter.
2. Press approx. 1 Tablespoon into each cupcake liner. Reserve any extra for garnish and set aside.
To Make the Cupcakes:
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly in between each.
- Add wine, orange zest and pureed peaches, mix well.
- ?Add dry ingredients and milk, alternately starting and ending with flour mix. Pour batter into each cup on top of cookie crust. Fill almost full, as the batter doesn’t rise that much.
- ?Bake 20-25 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
To Make the Icing:
- Add ingredients into mixer with whisk fitting. Beat mix at high speed until semi-stiff peaks form.
- Ice cupcakes when cooled and garnish with any leftover crumble from the crust.
Keywords: chardonnay cupcakes, peach cupcakes, easy recipes for cupcakes
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~Tanya
Yummm!!!
thanks so much for your kind words! your blog is incredible!!!! those sugar cookies…oh my….AMAZING!
I just favorite’d you as well 😉
Thanks ladies…don’t forget to vote when the voting opens…i’ll post a reminder.
not expecting to win, because some look really great, but it was fun coming up with the recipe!
Oh my goodness, that sounds incredible. You literally just made my mouth water, which is very unfortunate because I have no access to cupcakes at this time. I’d be mad at you if they didn’t look so enticing!
Wooooow, that sounds AMAZING…