This is probably one of my shortest blogs as far as me babbling goes. Maybe. ha! I made graduation cupcakes for one of my husband's co-workers. She had two kids graduating one from college and one from high school. So I had lots of fun colors to work with. I searched "graduation cupcakes" and there really isn't a whole lot of creative differences when it comes to graduation cupcake ideas. So caps, diplomas and some little embossed fondant pieces with "Congrats Grads" and " Class of 2010" and some starts, sprinkles and glitter. These cupcakes were basic, vanilla and chocolate and all with vanilla butter cream. I am still looking for the ONE that perfect vanilla cupcake recipe. The chocolate I made was the one from my pomegranate chocolate cupcakes but I altered the recipe and it is TO DIE FOR. My best chocolate cupcake I have ever made says me and the husband. This is now my GO-TO recipe. Still searching for that vanilla though. The buttercream is my basic fluffy vanilla butttercream which I divvied up for all the colors. I had JUST ENOUGH for all of them to do nice Wilton 1m swirls on, and with the little bit of each color I had left over I channeled my inner kindegartner and mixed all together to see what color I could make. Um. EW. It was like a faux chocolate color. Kinda grey, kinda purpely totally gross. ha ha. So here are the cupcakes, I TOTALLY forgot to take step by step pics so these are all finished ones. Preggo brain strikes again!!
The green and yellows are for the college graduation and the blue and reds are for the high school. I had some white with each to break them up and to give a few people the option to eat non dyed frosting. But not many. Ha!
I will post the chocolate cupcake recipe in its own post because it is THAT GOOD it deserves its own post.
ooh can't wait for the chocolate cupcake recipe! i've been looking for a go-to one myself..i've been altering a chocolate guiness cake and i'm still in experimental mode with that :)
ReplyDeleteWow these look great - I love the bold colours you've used for the frosting :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Leanne
ReplyDeleteSommer - I posted the cupcake recipe this am in a new post!
They look great! I love the deep blue..hard to get the frosting that blue
ReplyDeletehow did you get the embossing on the fondant!!! Thats really cool!!! Congrats on the chocolate recipe :)
ReplyDeletei have no idea why my pic is not showing up :(
ReplyDeleteI got a kit from Michaels actually in the clay department for the embossing. That's a good aisle to check since working with clay is the same as fondant/gum paste and they have neat tools and embossers and cutters there as well as the cake aisles.
ReplyDeleteyeah i have got alot of stuff down the clay aisle for fondant but never thought of the embossers duh lol! thanks for the tip! :)
ReplyDeletechoco cupcake recipe looks yummy, can't wait to try it! also, great tip on the clay aisle for embossers, never thought of that! it seems like everywhere i look i have a hard time finding a variety of fondant embossers. i'll look there next time thanks!
ReplyDeletehave you ever tried using rubber stamps, too? i've done that one before and it works pretty great
Sommer - I almost bought small rubber stamps but then I saw the embossing kit and with my Michael's 40% off coupon it was a deal. But I will try rubber stamps too at some point. I think stamps and clay tools work great for fondant and gum paste
ReplyDelete