Blacksburg High School Graduation Cupcakes

These cupcakes were made for a Blacksburg High School graduation party.  They are yellow cake decorated with orange, black, white, navy, and gold buttercream icing.  I think when cupcakes are made for a party they should be treated as decoration, so I always try to vary my designs.  The young woman graduating played basketball and soccer during high school, so I made basketball cupcakes with orange and white zigzag foils and soccer cupcakes with black and white checked foils.  The rest of the cupcakes were decorated in the school colors with "Class of 2014," "Congrats," "Maura," and the Blacksburg Bruin claw.  I tried to make these cupcakes interesting by varying the colors used on each cupcake as is visible from the side view  picture.  Some cupcakes have yellow foils with yellow icing and blue decoration, some have blue foils with yellow icing and blue decoration, some have yellow foils with blue icing and yellow decoration, and some have blue foils with blue icing and yellow decoration.  It takes some extra planning and attention to detail, but overall I think the end result more than makes up for the time involved. The price of these cupcakes is as follows:

Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x 2.25 = $5.74
Yellow  Cake: $1.93 x 2 = $ 3.86
Foils: $3
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 4 = $24
Estimate: $36.60