A friend of mine had a few friends over recently. Several of us haven’t seen each other since before Early December so there was much need to celebrate and catch up! Since there were New Years resolutions and health conscious goals, I tried to find something to bring that was celebratory without being super rich like chocolate cake. I found a recipe for Champagne Strawberries and adapted it a little.
This is an easy recipe but it’s not quick. Allow at least a day to prepare. I started with a basket of strawberries, roughly two dozen. I washed them, dried them and put them into jars.
Here’s the hardest part…I opened a bottle of sparkling wine and poured it over each jar of strawberries to fully cover them. Try not to drink any until you’ve covered all of your strawberries. (I ended up using the whole bottle for my three jars.)
I put them in the refrigerator and soaked them for about 24 hours.
The next day, I took the strawberries out of the jar and patted them dry. I made a simple glaze. I didn’t love it but it was ok for this time. I just did powdered sugar, couple of teaspoons of milk and some vanilla extract. The recipe called for frosting in a can which I’m not a fan of. I made the glaze just to drizzle over the berries. It didn’t look as pretty as the frosting pics but it tasted good.
I tried one of the strawberries immediately from the jar and determined that if you can serve these immediately they would be best cause they retain some of the fizziness so it’s a fun bite. If you can’t, they still are tasty.
I drizzled the glaze over the berries and sprinkled with rainbow sprinkles. Rainbow sprinkles cover a mulitude of imperfections such as the berries not being completely in season! Since the berries were soaked in booze and covered in glaze, it didn’t matter that they weren’t the sweetest on their own. Place each berry on a cupcake wrapper and ta-da! Super easy and looks sort of fancy.
has sugar and sparkling wine so it’s not really in the healthy category, but I’ll say it’s a win cause it’s way healthier than something else I could have made.
Find yourself a reason to celebrate and make these boozy berries sometime soon.
