Funfetti cupcakes topped with DIY chocolate graduation caps make a festive graduation centerpiece.
Ingredients
Funfetti Cupcakes
3½ cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
1¾ cups sugar
¼ cup butter
1½ Tbsp oil
2 egg whites
1⅔ cups milk
½ cup plain, fat-free yogurt
2½ tsp vanilla
1 3-ounce jar colored sprinkles (confetti, stars or other shapes)
Buttercream Frosting
3 ¾ cups powdered sugar
½ cup butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
3 Tbsp milk
Chocolate Graduation Caps
Chocolate squares (Ghirardelli or Hershey's)
Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Twizzlers or sour candy rods, sliced into thin strips
Instructions
Funfetti Cupcakes
Cream the butter, oil and sugar.
Add the egg whites and beat well.
Add the vanilla, milk and yogurt alternately with the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
Stir in the sprinkles.
Pour the cake batter into greased or lined cupcake pans.
Bake them at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until the cupcakes are a light golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
The top of the cupcakes should spring back to the touch.
Buttercream Frosting
Mix the ingredients together.
Beat the frosting on high until it is light and creamy.
Chocolate Graduation Caps
Break a Hershey chocolate bar into squares (2 of the rectangle pieces form a square; there ca be 3 squares per Hershey bar) or use Ghirardelli Chocolate squares
With icing or melted chocolate, attach the peanut butter cup to the chocolate square to form the grad cap.
Slice the Twizzlers or other rope candy into thin strips.
Twist the candy and with a toothpick use a tiny bit of melted chocolate to adhere the candy tassel to the top of the graduation cap.
Recipe by Itsy Bitsy Foodies at http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/funfetti-graduation-cupcakes/