Cupcakes and Wild Hibiscus

Wild Hibiscus Flower garnish

Aymie, one of the CT girls, just moved into a new loft and her mom was in from out of town, so we had a little Champagne Tuesday shin-dig at her new place.

It was super fun, complete with her mom's significant other playing a concert for us on a keyboard. :)

I brought "Cupcake" Prosecco (because cupcakes and champagne sounded like the best combo EVER). It was a little sweet for my liking, but it was good. Plus, it was only about $10 at The Party Source.

The Cupcake Prosecco is made in the Charmat Method where the second fermentation occurs is large stainless steel tanks. This is a less expensive procedure that produces softer, slightly sweet sparkling wine.

Cupcake Prosecco is a very light golden yellow, with lots of soft bubbles. The nose is fruity with grapefruit, peach and orange, with a hint of buttered bakery goodness on the finish, but not pronounced like champagne. This is a great palate cleanser or an aperitif.

Aymie is the hippy in the group, so leave it up to her to give our champagne some flower power! She bought Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup to garnish our champagne.

They made our champagne flutes look SO pretty, and they were actually really good to eat! We highly recommend them if you want to make your bubbly blossom!

-Amy