easy there cupcake: Finding Dory Cupcakes!

Not only have I been super excited for the release of Finding Dory--it also happens to coincide with my last day at my current job! I'm moving from New York to Florida for a Kindergarten teaching position at the same school where my brother teaches 1st grade! So, to celebrate, I decided to make Finding Dory cupcakes (which are basically just Finding Nemo cupcakes... but with an emphasis on Dory)!

Lemon cake--YUM!

I had to use a lot more blue food dye than I thought to make this cream cheese icing blue!

As is my custom, I went shopping at Fuzziwigs Candy Company for all my candy decorations!

I started with a mix of blue raspberry Pop Rocks and chocolate chip rocks!

I crushed graham crackers (in a bag, on the floor, with my foot) as sand!

Then came 4 batches of melting chocolates (my least favorite part). I mean, what came from them is my favorite part, but the process of melting them and then the cleanup is what I can do without! This color reminded me of the Yankees!

I put it in a Zipoc bag and had WAY more than I needed to make all the Dorys so I had fun and made some E's (for Elyse) just to see if they would work sitting on a cupcake, too!

I had drawn my shape idea on the back of this parchment paper, then started doing it freehand. I was really excited for the Nemos and Marlins!

Then came yellow! (I'm glad I had just done my nails!)

Dory!

Nemo, Marlin (you decide which is which), Bubbles, waves, starfish...

Then I put these in the fridge on a cookie sheet and went to bed! Sometimes cupcake baking and decorating is just plain exhausting. I'm glad I gave this project 2 days--it was so much easier and quicker the next night (I was doing this all after work, which lets me out at 5).