So, I am still behind on posts – so these are some cupcakes I made a few weeks ago for a friend of mine that finished her PhD at MSU.

These were chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing tinted green (not homemade this time). The graduation caps were made out of chocolate covered marshmallows and a chocolate square (Hersheys or Ghiradelli). You could also use Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but I thought the marshmallows were better for a PhD graduation.

Definitely needed to eat these in two stages!

Here was my first attempt at trying to use fondant. I made these for my advisors birthday. He is the PI of a project I work on involving measurement in elementary curricula, hence the rulers!

I made two different kinds – chocolate and spice cake and even made my own cream cheese icing!

So, even though I made these cupcakes a while ago since I just started this blog I thought I would go back to the beginning.

So, here is my first “gourmet” cupcake attempt. Some chocolate ganache cupcakes that I brought to the Math Ed opening potluck. I had dessert!