Challenge: 74: High Heel Cupcakes

High Heel Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes in anticipation of a chick-flick movie night I was hosting (no boys allowed!). But they are perfect for almost anything: birthdays, bridal showers, girl's night out, etc. And one thing is for sure, they will have your guests going crazy with amazement!

Ingredients

Yield 24

1 box of any flavor cake mix or your favorite from scratch recipe
Lots and lots of sprinkles of all different varieties
12 graham crackers, cut or broken in half
about 1 cup white chocolate chips
12 rolled cookies (such as Pirouettes)
food coloring
frosting (I used homemade, but store-bought will work)

Directions

Bake cupcakes as directed on box or according to recipe and allow to cool. Feel free to use cute cupcake tins, as they will help make your high heels cuter. (If you can't find cute tins, then the silver tin foil cupcake tins work great!)
Turn the graham cracker square diagonal and cut about 3/4 inch off both sides. When done it should look sort of like a tie. Do this to all of the graham cracker squares.

Improvised Double Boiler

3. Melt a little less than 3/4 cups of the white chocolate chips in a double boiler. If you do not have a double boiler you can put water in a small pot, and then place a glass or metal bowl into opening of pot so that the bowl fits exactly (make sure bowl does not touch water). Then boil the water in the pot and remove from heat. Immediately add white chocolate and stir till melted and smooth.

4. Using a knife, spread white chocolate all over one side of the cut graham crackers and allow chocolate to completely harden.

5. Color the frosting as desired and then frost the cupcakes. Decorate with sprinkles however you wish. It looks great if you dip the entire top of cupcake in sprinkles.

6. Set cupcakes aside. Pipe a thin line of frosting around top edge of graham crackers. Then dip the crackers in sprinkles (you will want to correspond these sprinkle choices with the sprinkle choices you used for the cupcakes). Now the graham cracker should have an outline of sprinkles.

7. Cut the rolled cookies (such as Pirouettes) in half. Angle one side of the rolled cookie.

8. Melt the rest of the white chocolate chips in the double boiler.

Small indent pictured above.

9. Cut a small indent in the cupcake toward the edge and insert the graham cracker.

10. Put some melted white chocolate on the angled side of the rolled cookie and press that side onto the bottom of graham cracker. Do not move cupcake until the white chocolate hardens.