Graduation Cupcakes

These are Graduation cupcakes I made for my mom's 8th grade class. These take a lot of work but they looked great (provided the a/c in the venue is working).

Supplies

24 cupcakes
1 can of frosting
Sprinkles in school colors
4 Giant Hershey's Bars (you will only need 3 but the 4th one is just in case the chocolate doesn't break evenly. I needed the 4th bar)
24 Reese Peanut butter cups
M&Ms in school colors
12 Vanilla Tootsie Rolls
1 Pack of Pull & Peel Twizzlers

1 .After the cupcakes have cooled frost them. The school colors at my mom's school are maroon & silver since I could only find silver sprinkles I made the frosting maroon.

2. Dip the edge of the cupcakes in the sprinkles. Set the cupcakes aside for now.

3. To make the graduation caps break the Hershey bars into even squares (each giant bar will give you 8 squares.)

4. Unwrap the Reeses cups and place them bottom up on a flat surface. Attach the Hershey bar squares with melted chocolate (I melted the pieces that didn't break into even squares, you can use the 4th Hershey bar or chocolate chips)

5. Cut the Twizzlers into your desired length. Take 3 pieces and pull them almost the whole way apart.

6. Put a dab of chocolate on the top of the cap and press on the Twizzlers, add a bit more chocolate and attach the M&M.

7. To make the diplomas put a tootsie roll in between 2 pieces of wax paper and roll it really thin. Trim the edges so you have a nice even rectangle. Cut the rectangle in half (You can get 2 diplomas per tootsie roll).

8. Roll the tootsie roll piece and tie with a piece of Twizzler. Place on cupcake near graduation cap.