Baby Sister Graduates!!!

My baby sister graduated from high school this past week...CONGRATS c/o 2010!! She joined the ranks of her older sisters and donned her sweet green robe and skipped across stage to steal her diploma.

Afterwards, we partied (mandatory)! I of COURSE wanted to bring a fun dish to share. So this is what I put together for her:

Here's an up close pic so you get the FULL MONTY view:

That's right...I made a bouquet of chocolate graduation caps!!! Looks super hard, eh? THINK AGAIN!!!

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Chocolate Graduation Caps

Ingredients

- Reese Cups

- Chocolate Squares (I used Russel Stover individual wrapped squares)

- Lollipop Sticks (I used BBQ Skewers)

- Chocolate to melt (you can use chocolate chips just fine)

- Decorative gel

- Airheads Extremes Rainbow Berry Sweetly Sour Belts (you can also try Twizzler pull-n-peels)

- Wax Paper

Directions

- Keep the Reese's and the Choc Square in the freezer till you are ready to unwrap them

- Unwrap the Reese's and put on wax paper to get to room temp.

- Once at room temp, stick in the skewer (or lollipop stick)

- Put aside

- Unwrap the choc squares, and lay on wax paper

- Melt some chocolate chips to use as a glue

- Cut out the colors you want to use from the Sour Belts

- Using the melted chocolate, glue the sour belt to the chocolate square (making it look like a tassel)

- Top off the cap with a drop of decorative gel (or glue a mini m&m - be creative)

- Once the tops are dry, use melted chocolate to glue the top of the cap to the cap (the choc square to the Reese)

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Since my sister's party was a beach theme, I used an ice bucket filled with sand as the "lollipop holder". At first I was worried that no one would eat them because they were so pretty, but I was WRONG!! After everyone ate the main food, then demolished the graduation caps!!!

These were SUPER easy, and something I would make again - MUCH easier and more fun than those Oreo balls!

Enjoy! - apes -