Penn Charter Bake Sale

My friend Kim is working at the Saint James School in Philadelphia for her senior project. Since my senior project was baking and she was having a bake sale fundraiser, we figured it would make a lot of sense for me to bake for her. The proceeds went to the Saint James School in order to improve their after school program.I decided to make my general vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting, chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting, and chocolate cupcakes with a marshmallow frosting dipped in chocolate.
The vanilla frosting I came up with by myself but the marshmallow and chocolate frostings you can find here:
http://www.countryliving.com/recipefinder/fudgy-cream-cheese-frosting-3628
and
http://www.marthastewart.com/258067/hi-hat-cupcakes
i didn't however use the cake batter that martha stewart used.

When I saw the addition of oil needed into the chocolate I originally thought it was gross... I learned however that it makes the melted chocolate more silky and thin which helps when coating the cupcakes.
Some key tips if you make the marshmallow topped ones:
-Freeze the cupcakes with the frosting for around 10 minutes, it makes the dipping easier
-don't be stressed out if the frosting before or after dipping isn't perfect, they still look good
-if you notice some marshmallow getting into the dipping chocolate, remove it. It makes the chocolate have a grainy look instead of the completely smooth silky look that you want

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Making the marshmallow frosting...it is done over a pan of simmering water

cupcakes with marshmallow top

vanilla on vanilla cupcakes

I added edible pearls for decoration

with extra batter I made larger cupcakes for home

dipping process

vanilla and chocolate cupcakes!

and some bake sale pictures!

hopefully everything went well!

Just an update that my senior project is ending in less than 2 weeks. I will still bake sometimes since I love to do it so much but it won't be as frequent

If you have tried things PLEASE comment on them

Thanks

-J