Monday, May 11, 2009

Graduation Pops

My younger sister graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago this weekend with a Bachelors degree in Architecture. I am so proud of all she has accomplished. She was originally an engineering student and when she realized her true passion was architecture she fought hard to make it into the program. She has worked her BUTT OFF over the past few years and has earned admissions to Harvard's graduate program this fall. She can really do anything she puts her mind to, congrats Jill!


I made these graduation pops from Bakerella's site. I edited them for the candy I could find.

My changes: I used dark chocolate Ghiradelli squares, Reese's peanut butter cups, cinnamon Twizzlers pull-n-peel, and baker's chocolate as the 'glue'. I frayed the ends of the Twizzlers to make them look like traditional tassels and to top off the hats I just cut a piece of the Twizzlers, rolled it into a ball, flattened them, and adhered them with baker's chocolate.

7 comments:

The Cooking Photographer said...

Those are adorable. I bet your sister loved them!

Joelen said...

Congrats to her and these are adorable!

Shauna said...

Those turned out so good! I saw those on her site not long ago and thought they were cute. You did a great job.

Molly Jean said...

SO CUTE! I bet she was tickled when she saw them :)

Stephanie said...

Those are super cute! Love the frayed twizzler tassels!

alauna said...

really cute - you did a great job! bakerella has some really fun ideas :)

Erin said...

Great job! I was hoping to have time to make those this weekend in addition to a graduation cake I'm making. I hope I can, they're TOOO cute! Yours look great.

 

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