Twilight Party

One of the students I work with in the afterschool program is moving out of state with her family and today was her last day.  As much as I try not to have "favorites," there are always students that you connect with more than others; she is definitely one of those students.  At the beginning of the year, she started reading the Twilight series and after discovering that I am a huge Twilight fan, started waiting for me every day outside the afterschool program homework room to discuss what she had just read and to gush over the dreamy Edward Cullen.  She is well-behaved, polite, hard working and just genuinely a good kid. We were all sad to learn that her family was relocating to Oregon (although it does make her one state closer to Forks).  The other afterschool program staff members and I decided that a Twilight themed going away party was absolutely necessary.

I knew I had to make vampire cupcakes.  Since it was a bit of an experiment, I felt it was necessary to document my work. 


Step 1: I melted Wilton Candy Melts and poured the melted candy into a Ziploc plastic bag. I then trimmed off a very, very small amount off of one of the corners, making it into a makeshift pastry bag.

Step 2: I found clipart of vampire fangs and transformed it into a template for the candy pieces.  I placed the template under a sheet of parchment and piped the melted candy on the parchment.  I did all the white fangs first and then, when they were cooled, made the lips.

Step 3: I made red velvet cupcakes and cream cheese buttercream icing.  I then rolled the edges of the cupcakes in black sprinkles.  I topped the cupcakes off with the cooled, candy fangs and a little "blood" (red gel icing).

I can definitely think of ways to improve them next time, but I am pretty happy with how they turned out.

It was nice of Robert Pattinson to make an appearance.  The girls (ok me too) went crazy over him!

We ate cupcakes, took pictures, watched New Moon and had a great time but our party had a sad ending.  Our student is gone...  She will be greatly missed but I am confident that she will succeed at her new school and in the future.




In happier news....SPRING BREAK!!!   WOO!!!  I am off for 10 days! Maybe now I can tackle some of the overdue items on my wedding to-do list....