Have you seen the price of sheet cakes lately? OUCH. Especially if you don't mind heading into the kitchen yourself, you know that $12.99 to $24.99 for a sheet cake can be drastically reduced to far less.
The cost of box of mix before coupons is usually around $1 to $1.99
Icing - $1 to $2.07 --
You get the picture.
If you have a pre-school, kindergarten, middle school, high school or college level graduate you will want to treat them to a celebration no-doubt.
Save some coin and add some love with these ideas for graduation desserts:
CAKES & CUPCAKES --
I've mentioned this site before --
Coolest Homemade Birthdays
They have a section dedicated to graduation cakes and cupcakes.
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UPSIDE DOWN CUPCAKES --
Kraft Foods has directions h
es upside down and turning them into graduation caps.
CANDY --
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Ingredients --
Miniature peanut butter cups
Frosting or peanut butter
Chocolate-covered graham crackers
Fruit leather
Instructions
1.Place a miniature peanut butter cup, bottom up, on a plate. Top with a small dollop of frosting or peanut butter, then press on a chocolate-covered graham cracker.
2.For a tassel, tightly roll up a small square of fruit leather. Cut fringe on one end and attach the other end to the center of the graham cracker with another dab of frosting or peanut butter.
BBM -- NOTE -- you could skip the Starbust and use Twizzlers, or Sour straws and slice them in strips, so you don't have to roll out the Starbursts like they suggest.
BAKERELLA.COM -- CANDY & CAKE POPS
Go here to see candy pops -- It's an updated version of the above dessert.
One of her fans combined the cake pop with the candy pop idea you can see it here.
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Watch the video on how the cake pops are made here: