Graduation Cap Cup Treats

It’s officially graduation season!! Many of you will be celebrating graduations this Grad season and I’m right there with all of you!  My sister, Janice, is graduating from Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Aviation Management.  The girl wants to be a pilot and myself and our family could not be prouder of her!  She flies small planes right now as she practices to get her pilot’s license. I can’t promise that I’ll get in a plane with her, just because the notion of having a relative fly the plane I’m on kind of freaks me out.  But nonetheless, the girl will be a “pilot and not the flight attendant”, as she likes to say.

As a result of her amazing dedication to her flight career choice, we will be having a graduation party for her next month.  Normally, when I plan parties I do research for MONTHS before the event date.  However, in this case, my mom and I didn’t finalize anything until recently and now I’m scouring the internet for graduation party ideas.  Ideally, I’d like to incorporate a flight/airplane theme to this shindig, but I have yet to find anything inspiring.  ANY IDEAS would be greatly appreciated!  I need help!!!!  Anyhow, I did come across these sweet Graduation Cap Cup Treats by Bakerella.  I think I will have to make some for the dessert table. Enjoy!!

Marshmallow Apple Treats

I'm SOOO late on the Teacher Appreciation Week posts, but I wanted to post this anyway, because I know I will want to reference it again next year during this time.  I came across these last year via Andrea at {Dolce Drive} and I fell in love.  I made a mental bookmark for when my little man had teachers that I could actually make these for. Andrea's tutorial is just perfect and well illustrated.

These Apple Treats are just perfect little treats to give to a teacher....and they are such a hit!  I even thought that they can be placed on a dessert table for kids parties: a Princess Party, a Snow White Party, an Apple of My Eye Party and even a Wizard of Oz party.  Not only are they cute, they are delicious and SO easy to make!  Chocolate covered, sprinkled, marshmallowy goodness!

Here are {really bad} pictures of the apples I made for the teachers at my son's preschool.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a good image other than with my BlackBerry, but here they are, nonetheless. Please disregard the pans on the stove and the mess on the kitchen table {obvious signs that our family is outgrowing this house; we have LIMITED counter space!}  Maybe one of you can try them and send me YOUR images!

Thank you, Andrea, for letting me share these!