Gradumication

My last two orders have been for graduations. It's been fun making tiny diplomas for the tops of my cupcakes! Here are a few photos from the 120+ cupcakes I've made:

It's My Party Cupcake: confetti cake with vanilla buttercream and my favorite sprinkles:

My "signature cupcake": Chocolate cake, raspberry filling, chocolate dipped raspberry on top. Chech out those cutey diplomas!

The are my Lemon Blast cupcakes: lemon cake with lemon curd filling and these have lemon cream cheese frosting w/ a lemon jelly belly on top

I made this for Cinco de Mayo and they were a huge hit, so now they're on the menu and being ordered, I call them the Chocolate Doodle: chocolate cake w/vanilla swiss meringue buttercream sprinkled with cinnamon and cocoa and a milk chocolate chip

Here is the Lemon Blast with diplomas and instead of lemon cream cheese frosting, they have a vanilla swiss meringue buttercream

This coming week I have four orders.. a graduation cake, minis for a tech event, minis for a bridal shower, and regulars for a summer bbq. I don't know how I'm going to do it but it will happen! I'm pretty sure this weekend will be dedicated to figuring out what the problem is with my vanilla cake, it peels from the wrapper. I've tried a few tricks and they seem to work, but the problem inevitably comes back. I'm also freaking out just a bit because I can no longer taste my own cupcakes.. I mean, I can taste them, but I'm starting to lose my grip on whether or not they're good, if the lemony ones are lemony enough, etc. I hope I don't lose it entirely! That would be awful.

Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody!