What an honor it was to create a cake to celebrate the High School Graduation of two incredible kids. When I ask about the theme for the party I was told: Jasmine likes purple, peace signs and music, Nykael likes red, plants, music…they both play the Clarinet. The school colors are red and black and … Read more
This is my 4 year old son’s preschool graduation cake. The class was having a party at school and I wanted to make something REALLY special for them. It was a huge hit! Even the teachers loved it, telling me other teachers and staff were coming to take pictures. I was so pleased! I am … Read more
I wanted to make a cake for my step-son’s graduation. I didn’t want to make another traditional star cake. We had bought him a graduation card and this is what I based my cake on. I looked for the perfect pan and found a bread/angel food cake pan. This way I didn’t have to do any cutting..hate … Read more
I was asked in 2012 to bake two graduation cakes for one family. I was told one would be a marine biology theme, the other zoology. I asked what college and was informed these were high school graduation cakes. Who knew? I asked the color and was told the graduates didn’t want their school colors, just their … Read more
This graduation cake was made in 2008 for a friend. Bottom of cap: I baked the bottom of the cap in one-half of the Wilton ball pan (if you don’t have that pan, you could also use an ovenproof bowl). Iced it, then covered it with fondant, making the fondant come to sort of a … Read more
We wanted the Graduation Open House Cake for our oldest daughter’s high school graduation to be different from all the others we had seen. So we decided to theme it toward where she would be attending college rather than where she went to high school. The IU cake was a four-layer red velvet cake with … Read more
I made this graduation cake for my boyfriend’s graduation. It was two 11″x15″ cakes (one white, one chocolate) placed side by side and glued together with a bit of icing. The top piece was cake baked in the top two pieces of a small tier set (5″ and 7″?). I decorated the top outside of … Read more
This was the second of two graduation cakes I made this year. For this cake, first bake and frost a cake (I used white butter cream icing and chocolate cake). For the mortarboard, I found a picture in clip art and enlarged it on the photocopier.
This is the graduation cake I made. This is the first time I tried my hand at Fondant. Since I don’t like the taste of ready made fondant I tried making marshmallow fondant. I wasn’t sure whether it will come out right so I didn’t add any colour. Once it came out well I was … Read more
My friend saw a picture online and wanted me to make a Graduation Cake for her husband. He had just graduated from a Respiratory Therapy program. The stethoscope and grad cap are made out of fondant. For the cap, I used a small piece of cardboard for the top and put the fondant on that … Read more
This graduation cake was for a High School Graduate. It is just a 1/4 Sheet cake decorated in golden yellow with red shell border. The cap is an upside down cup cake with a thick piece of black card stock on top (if its not thick enough the “glue” icing will bleed through). On top … Read more
Each of the 18 graduates got their own smiley face graduation cupcake. Graduation cupcake mortarboards were made from chocolate candy melts piped onto wax paper using decorating bag and then sprinkled with black sanding sugar. Graduation cake cupcake tassels are butter cream icing strings with fruit roll-up tassels.