Here are some beach themed cupcakes that I made from my friend Ellie's birthday last year. I made some vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. For the vanilla cupcakes I frosted them and dipped the frosting into crushed graham cracker crumbs. On top of these cupcakes I added chocolate seashells and mini cocktail umbrellas. For the chocolate seashells I used a chocolate mold from Michael's and some yellow and white candy melts. I melted the candy melts in the microwave separately and added a little bit of both the melted yellow candy melts and melted white candy melts and swirled them around with a toothpick to get a more realistic looking seashell. The mini cocktail umbrellas were made with paper, hot glue, and beads. The link on how to make the seashells is at the bottom of the page. For the "water" cupcakes I piped on the tinted blue frosting in a swirl and added blue sanding sugar on it.
