Watson Graduations

Paul's Nieces graduated this year- one from College one from High School.  Christine played softball for the St. Bonaventure Bonnies.  Her cake featured a turf field, the Bonnie logo as well as Bona Billy- the black Squirrel.  Laura's Florida themed cake is in recognition of her acceptance to Florida Southern University.  This cake helped everyone get a sense of what part of Florida we will all be visiting each winter over the next four years :)  .

Grads and Fireworks

Celebrated the graduation of my cousin from high school as well as the 4th of July this weekend.  I can't believe by little cousin- who I baby sat over the summer when she was 3 month to 6 month old is now graduating from High school.  Yikes. 

The bad news about the cake is that during the transport I had my second cake wreck of all time.  I guess that isn't too bad of a track record considering I drive about an hour every time I go to a family function...
The good news is that the leopard print on the inside of the cake worked!  yeah...
Here are pictures of the cake, the cake wreck and the aftermath...

This is the only before picture I have...

The after...

 

 

 My attempt at leopard print on the inside...  Thanks to mycakeschool.com

 

 Good thing I made cookies too...

Ashley's Graduation

My beautiful cousin graduated from High School this year. She is off to cosmetology school to start to build her empire...  We had a picnic this weekend to help her celebrate with friends and family.  The nail accessories on the cake are made out of chocolate.  The graduation hat and diploma are fondant.  The cookies were sugar cookies decorated in school colors.  I'll be posting more pictures from the party soon...


More cookies...

 The start of the cake...

 The chocolate and fondant accents drying...

 The cookies are drying...

 Everything is packed up ready to go....

Graduation Hats

Made these adorable graduation hats that were inspired by the amazing Bakerella. It took me a few trips to a few different grocery stores to find the right "hat" tops to the peanut butter cups. I ultimately settled on the Hershey's special dark chocolate bar.  There is probably grocery store video of me inappropriately feeling the packages of chocolate bars to make sure they were the right size... The ghirardelli squares were too big and weren't flat, others were too small, too big, had too much of an imprint of decoration etc...  I wasn't able to make it to a Godiva store to pick up the recommended squares, so I improvise.  I think they worked out nicely... The 95 degree heat and an hour and a half drive in my car caused a few casualties but overall most of them survived the trip...
Here are the pics of the assembly:

The materials

Wrappers are removed...

Getting Ready for Assembly

The tassels are done and "glued" down with chocolate, now it is time to insert the lollipop sticks.  Had to make sure they were room temperature so they didn't crack

Now I just have to glue them together with chocolate.

Finished

All done

The final product