Cupcakes may not seem like a tool for change, but at the Choose 2 Give cupcake mural, each one represented a small act of giving that added up to something much bigger.
The display began with a lot of hard work behind the scenes. The mural featured more than 2,400 cupcakes, and baking them all took two days.
"One day we baked all the flavors together and then the second day, after they cool off, we pipe them," Fernanda Dutra, BYU executive pastry chef, said.
"You've got to make the cupcakes. You've got to cool the cupcakes. The labor-intensive part is frosting the cupcakes. You can see that there's a good amount of frosting," Scott Pinkham, assistant general manager of BYU Dining Services, said.
The three colors are each unique flavors.
"The beige one is Graham Canyon," Dutra said. "It's kind of the same flavor of a S'mores kind of flavor, and it has honeycomb candy covered in chocolate inside."
The white cupcake is a vanilla cupcake with strawberry.
"The chocolate is a chocolate cake with chocolate chips, and that's the blue icing," Dutra said.
This annual event has been held for just under a decade.
"Seven or eight years we've been going," Pinkham said.
The cupcakes provided more than a sweet study treat; they helped support students in need.
"100% of this money from retail dining will go to the Choose 2 Give organization, and they hand it out to needy students," Pinkham said.
"This whole donation campaign is to gain donations from students at BYU for students at BYU," Carly Belliston, cupcake mural coordinator, said. "Being connected for good is kind of the main theme, which we felt like the BYU logo represents."
The Choose 2 Give mural turned cupcakes into community and showed how creativity can bring people together to give back.