Graduation Party

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The guests at this party spanned a large group of people so the cupcakes for it needed to appeal to both the high school graduates and all of the parents. First I made the butterfly cupcakes.

As my sister loves chocolate, the cake was chocolate with buttercream icing. I hand-made the butterflies out of chocolate and topped each cupcake with at least one. This was an adventure for me, since I had never used modeling chocolate before, and as it was summer in Texas, but the cupcakes practically looked alive and held up perfectly all night. The second batch of cupcakes were chocolate mud cupcakes with fresh rasperries in the filling and a couple of fresh rasperries atop each cupcakes. These were elegant and delicicous.