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Building an Easy Winter Cheeseboard + Beaujolais Wine

December 10, 2018 By Becky Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by Discover Beaujolais.

An Easy Winter Cheeseboard + Beaujolais Wine

This easy winter cheeseboard paired with Beaujolais wine makes holiday entertaining a snap. Plus, there’s a recipe for a five-minute pomegranate chèvre cheeseball!

Want to know the secret to super easy holiday entertaining that looks and tastes fancy and will impress all your guests? Here its is: wine and an epic cheeseboard. This is so simple to put together, but everyone loves it. Best of all, there’s no cooking required! I’ve teamed up with Discover Beaujolais to bring you this easy winter cheeseboard that pairs perfectly with their Moulin-à-Vent red wine.

Beaujolais is a region of France north of Lyon that produces red and white wines as well as rosé. The soil there has pink granite in it with streaks of manganese, which gives the grapes and thus the wine a special flavor. I would love to go see this gorgeous region for myself, but for now, I’ll be imagining it while I snack on this cheeseboard and sip on glass of Moulin-à-Vent red.

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Filed Under: appetizer, gluten free, recipe Tagged With: cheese, Christmas, goat cheese, holiday, New Year's, party, pomegranate, wine, winter

A Cupcake Party and Simple Chocolate Buttercream

May 20, 2013 By Becky Leave a Comment

We had a decorate-your-own cupcake party last night!  I got the idea from this post on A Beautiful Mess.  People had so much fun choosing a cupcake flavor and heaping on toppings inside the ring of frosting.  Carrot cupcakes were the most popular, and I saw lots of people spooning on strawberry curd.  It wasn’t too bad waking up to leftovers this morning, either.  I am a big fan of cake for breakfast.  Maybe the decorate-your-own cupcake station can become a permanent feature around here?
In case you want to throw your own cupcake party, here are the recipes I used:
  • Carrot Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Neufchatel Frosting
  • Double Chocolate Vegan Cupcakes
  • Vanilla Bean Cupcakes from Annie’s Eats
  • Strawberry Curd
  • Salted Caramel Sauce
For the chocolate cupcakes, I was too lazy to make the Swiss meringue buttercream that’s in the post for the Double Chocolate Vegan Cupcakes, so I made a simple chocolate buttercream.  Here’s the recipe in case you want to make it!


Ingredients (makes enough for 12 cupcakes): 

8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted
Pinch of salt 

Combine all ingredients and beat on high speed until smooth.

I also put out these toppings:
  • Shredded coconut
  • Chopped pecans
  • Chopped strawberries with a little sugar
  • Sprinkles
  • Mini m & ms
There are so many other things that would be great on cupcakes!  What are your favorite cupcake flavors, frostings, and toppings?

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