Beach/Luau/Summer Cupcakes

I saw thesecupcakes at a friend's house last weekend and replicated the idea for my Luau on Saturday. They weren't any more difficult than regular frosted cupcakes and would even be a cute treat to make the kids on the last day of school to welcome summer break. Or better yet, a "Have a great summer," end-of-the-year gift for teachers or school friends.


What you need:
- 24 baked, cooled cupcakes
- white frosting
- blue tinted frosting (2-3 drops of food coloring should be plenty) - "ocean"
- 4 whole graham crackers - "sand"
- 24 mini umbrellas - "umbrellas" (oh wait, was that obvious?)
- 24 striped candies - "beach balls"


1. Place the graham crackers in a zipper sandwich bag. Using a rolling pin, roll the crackers into crumbs. Pour the crumbs into a shallow bowl.

2. Frost 1/2 of one cupcake with white frosting and dip into the graham cracker crumbs.

3. Frost the other 1/2 with blue frosting. (mine was too thin and I was in a hurry, but if I did these again, I'd smear the blue frosting on really sloppy, to look like waves)

4. Unwrap a candy, dip it in white frosting and adhere to the crumb side of the cupcake.

5. Stick an umbrella into the crumb side, near the "beach ball." Voila!