Wesley's Nursing Party

We celebrated my sister Wesley last month as she graduated Nursing School. I am so proud of her and so excited for her to begin her new career. She is going to be an amazing nurse! 

I themed the desserts in the colors mint green and red. I made a variety of nurse themed fondant cupcake toppers. Some with pills, scrubs, band aids, red crosses, and stethoscopes. I topped the mini cupcakes (below) with small red fondant hearts.

The cupcakes were Wesley's favorite; Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and a Peanut Butter Filling.

We made a Dirty Shirley Punch.

 

I made heart sugar cookies and frosted them with royal icing designs of heart shaped stethoscopes and EKG patterns. The recipe for the sugar cookies is by Sweetopia, you can find the recipe HERE. It is great for cut out cookies that you plan to frost because the cookies come out nice and smooth.

I placed this nurses prayer on a canvas for my sister to take home.

Found the nurses prayer via Pinterest.

Congratulations Nurse Wesley!!!

Graduation Cupcakes

You'll need Reese's Peanut Butter cups, Airhead Xtremes, mini M&M's, and at first I bought Ghirardelli chocolate squares for the caps, but they were a little too big. So I made my own chocolate squares using chocolate candiquik.

I made the chocolate squares just how I made them for the cake pops with square molds. And you will need some of the melted chocolate to fasten everything together.

Peel the wrappers off of the Reese's, but it helps if you stick them in the freezer first. Then the chocolate won't stick to the wrappers. Cut the Airhead Xtremes into pieces, pop your chocolate squares out of the molds, and then you're ready to assemble your caps.

Graduation Cap Cake Pops

I needed to come up with a cute cake idea for a graduation party for my Sister-in-law and Father-in-law; who both just graduated with their Master's degree! When I saw these graduation cake pops on Bakerella's site I knew I had to try making them! The real work behind these was trying to track down all of the supplies and candy to make them. You'll need the following:

• Candy melts, in your desired color (found in baking isle at craft store)
• lollipop sticks (baking isle at craft store)
• Square candy mold (baking isle at craft store)
• candy cup mold (baking isle at craft store)
• mini M&M's
• Airhead xtremes, cut into strips for the tassels (found at specialty candy store; Sweeties)
• cake mix
• frosting

Prepare your cake according to the directions on the box or recipe, let cool and crumble into fine pieces in a large bowl. Stir in about 1 cup of frosting until cake is sticking together. I usually don't use the whole container. Roll cake into small balls that will fit into your candy cup molds and refrigerate until chilled.

Microwave your candy melts following the direction on the bag and pour into a plastic squeeze bottle. Squeeze a small amount into each square mold and tap the container on the counter to make sure they are even. Place in the freezer to set.

Now squeeze some of the candy melts into each of the candy cup molds and push the cake balls down into the melted candy. Try to make sure the cake balls are level with the top of the tray.

Next squeeze the candy melts over top of the cake balls and push the lollipop sticks in. Place in the freezer for about 5 minutes to set.

Remove the squares from the freezer and pop out of the molds by pushing up from the bottom of the tray. Use and small amount of the candy melts to attach the squares to the tops of the cake pops once they have set. Then you can use the candy melts to also fasten the candy tassels and M&M's

Free Graduation Cupcake Printables

Check out these free graduation cupcake printables here, I found them on Tip Junkie, by Simply Silhouettes. You can contact Simply Silhouettes to customize the text and colors for a small fee. Or if you want to add some color you could tie a colored ribbon around the toothpick below the printable.