For this homemade kindergarten graduation cake I started with a 9×9 cake pan and a small glass bowl pan. I used a yellow butter cake recipe. I then used fondant tinted to make the graduate, diploma and to cover the cap. The top of the cap is actually a piece of cardboard. The bottom of … Read more
My youngest sister was graduating the same year I started making cakes so I was very excited about this Graduation Cake! Her high school colors and college colors were almost the same! She was going into drama which is why I made theater masks in fondant. She was also studying journalism in fashion. For that … Read more
My girlfriend had just gotten her EMT training done and I wanted to let her know how proud I was of her by baking this graduation cake for her birthday. I made a two layer round cake then using wax paper traced the outline of the star of life in the center with frosting. I … Read more
I made this Swimming Pool Graduation Cake for my co-workers son. He graduated from high school. The pool is made of chocolate sponge cake with a chocolate creme filling. The cake has a crumb coat of buttercreme icing and covered in fondant. I used clear piping gel mixed with blue coloring to make the water … Read more
After looking all over for some ideas on decorating a cake for Pharmacist graduation cake I decided to create my own. I made this cake for a family friend who graduated from Pharmacy school and is now a Pharmacist. I made the bottom 18” round with fresh strawberries, kiwis and mangoes and whipped cream. Then … Read more
This Graduation cake was made for a family members high school graduation party. It is a white cake from a cake mix. It is 12 by 18. It is iced in butter cream icing. The middle door of the cake is a piece of cardboard covered in tin foil and iced to match the rest … Read more
This graduation cake is an 8′ round cake, three layers tall. It is covered with white marshmallow fondant with stripes in red and black marshmallow fondant. The cap on top is made from black gum paste made a few days before and left to dry. The pattern for the hat is in one of Wilton’s … Read more
This Topsy Turvy Graduation Cake was made at the request of my neice. She wanted a special cake for her graduation party. I made this cake with a heavy pound cake weight layer. Tiers are 14 inch, 10 inch and 6 inch. Each layer is made in 3 parts. First layer is the acutal 14, … Read more
I created this Graduation Cake for a kid’s graduation party. I used fondant on the layers and premixed color fondant for the shapes. The hat was made in a cereal bowl. The top of the hat is a piece of card stock. I was going to hang a tassel at the top, but ran out … Read more
The bottom layer of the graduation cake is a half sheet cake that I iced in white. I made the scrolls out of fondant and gumpaste and painted the ribbon black. I used a pampered chef bowl to make the cap. I covered it in fondant and hand painted with food coloring the red so … Read more
I had been searching for a graduation cake/cupcake idea for over a month. It was getting down to crunch rime and I was on the phone with my mom and the idea just came to me. I made regular cupcakes and tinted icing (school colors or close to it). I added black coloring (Wilton) to … Read more
A friend of mine’s daughter was graduating from High School and he asked if I could make a cake shaped like a peanut (because that is his nickname for her). I think I did a pretty good job on it. It is all homemade including the cake batter, Italian buttercream base layer and the white … Read more