Cupcakes!

So everyone knows how to make cupcakes. Just go to the store and buy a box of the mix and follow the instructions. Easy as pie right? My senior year of high school we did a thing called "#1 Fans". It's where each senior football player gets a senior volunteer that's a girl, to send them a new surprise everyday of the rival week. I volunteered because I had a few close friends who played and who wouldn't want to do something like that? It was a blast! Some of the days we had to make them a shirt, another was a hat, a CD filled with pumping music, a poster that would get hung up in the main hallway, and a dessert. I chose to have my best friend, Zach, as my football player. Now, everyone at my old high school knew that I was the queen of nobake cookies, so if I made those, Zach would automatically know it was me, and the whole surprise element would be ruined. So, I got the idea to make cupcakes like they do on the show DC cupcakes. They turn a regualar dessert into a piece of art by making them look like a painting. They first sketch out the design they want, and put a grid over top of it. I made a grid of 24 cupcakes, so 4 wide and 6 long. This way when I wrote out what I wanted, I knew exactly what to put where, this is how the end product looked.

 

 

They were scrumptious! Friday when I was at home, bored, I decided to put a smile on my current boyfriends face by making him cupcakes. I only used 12 cupcakes this time, and I used the same strategy as I did with Zach's cupcakes. These ones were obviously more "lovey dovey" because they were for my boyfriend. But hey, they still tasted good. I put them in his car while he was at work so he could also be surprised. Needless to say, he loved them :)