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Celebrate your scholar at a Graduation Party with a tower of cupcakes as a sweet reward for all their years of hard work in school.
Make graduation cap cupcakes by topping them off with an edible mortarboard or go for a laugh with a bobblehead grad decoration.
From diploma decor to a Happy Face theme, these ideas promise a bright and tasty future for your Graduation Party.
Devil's Food, a sweet that tempts many and few can resist, such as the layers of chocolate in these sinfully deliciously cupcakes. Click here for Banana Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
Ingredients
- 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 1/2 cups boiling water
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups golden brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- pinch of salt
- Banana Cream Cheese Frosting
Steps
- Heat oven to 350°F. Line muffin cups (2-1/2 inches in diameter) with paper bake cups.
- Put chocolate in a heatproof bowl and pour boiling water over it. Stir until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth; set aside.
- Cream together butter and sugar until blended. Add eggs one at a time and beat to incorporate. Beat in vanilla extract.
- Stir together cocoa powder, flour, baking soda and salt. Add dry ingredients into mixture and beat until combined. Pour in melted chocolate and beat until blended.
- Fill prepared cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
- Ice cupcakes with Banana Cream Cheese Frosting and serve with graduation decoration on top or chocolate shavings.Makes about 30 cupcakes
Banana in this classic cream cheese frosting recipe lightens up the batch and tastes great on chocolate cake or cupcakes.
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 Cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 Cup mashed ripe banana
- 1 lb. powdered sugar
Steps
- Cream together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add banana and mix to incorporate. Add sugar in 1/2 cup increments beating after each addition until fluffy.Makes about 4 cups
There are many ways to spice up your graduate's cupcakes. From bobbleheads to diploma decor, we have just the treat for you!
- Bobblehead Toppers: Top cupcakes with a girl or guy Bobble-Grad from Sugarcraft, an online baking supplier with tons of Graduation Party cake decor.
- Diploma Decor: Roll up small pieces of white paper to resemble diplomas. Tie a thin ribbon around the middle of each one to keep it closed and place it on top of a cupcake.
- Grad Lollipop-Topped Cupcakes: Insert personalized graduation lollipops into each cupcake. Trim the lollipop sticks if need be.
- Graduation Candy Accents: Add gold foil-covered "congrats" bubblegum coins or graduation hard candy on top of cupcakes.
- Graduation Picks: Stick a grad cap or Happy Face grad pick into each cupcake.
Perk up your cupcakes with your graduate's school colors! It's time to show appreciation for their alma mater.
- Use food coloring to tint cupcake frosting to match your school colors. For example, if your colors are green and gold, frost half of the cupcakes green and the other half gold!
- Insert a graduation cupcake pick into the top of each one.
- Get creative by decorating cupcakes using Wilton's Happy Face grad design, but instead of yellow frosting, use school colors and then pipe on the face and top it with a grad cap!
Graduation cap cupcakes are the most popular decorating theme for grad party sweets and can be made in a number of ways.
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- Chocolate Graham Cracker Grad Caps: Kraft Food's has a great idea of turning a cupcake upside down and using a chocolate-dipped graham cracker as the cap top. Strips of fruit roll up and a jellybean make a perfect tassel.
- Peanut Butter Cup Grad Caps: Check out this how-to video to make mini peanut butter cup and chocolate graham cracker mortarboards to top cupcakes.
- Happy Face Grad Caps: Wilton has instructions for cute Happy Face grad cupcakes or a cupcake tower, Gifts and Grins, that's sure to put a smile on your guest of honor.
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