Here are some of the coolest ideas for graduation cakes. Graduation celebrates the culmination of blood, sweat and tears, with a little school work on the side. Whether someone is finishing preschool or medical school, they have achieved their personal goals.
The best way to celebrate, of course, is always with a cake! Festive and fun, you can personalize your cake with school colors. Also, books and graduation caps are always a classic idea. In addition, you will find interesting themed cakes here. Everything from medical themes to zoology to art and drama themes. There is also a wonderful sports themed cake, complete with a tennis ball wearing graduation cap. In conclusion, the best cake will be enhanced with the qualities which make your graduate special.
After working so hard to reach this accomplishment, your homemade creation will be the literal icing on their delicious cake. We can’t wait to see what your design looks like! Please share it with us and inspire others with your creativity.
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.
This Graduation Cake I made for a doctor graduating. It was also her birthday. The bottom tier is choc biscuit cake and choc sponge and the top tier is choc sponge. I covered the entire cake with white fondant and added black fondant strips and white stripes. All the extras around the cake Stethoscope, Hypodermic … Read more
I got this task for a Hat and Scroll Graduation Cake from my child’s teacher. This is my first time I did cake decoration with plastic icing. I learnt a lot from making this one and since then I am very confident to decorate cakes with plastic icing. Few mistakes happened but it was an … Read more
This graduation cake was made for a high school graduate who is on her way to attend college at the Savannah College of Art & Design. The cake was made using Wilton’s square cake pans and iced in black & white buttercream. The daisies were made of royal icing and the lettering is fondant. The … Read more
This graduation cake was made for my daughters kindergarten graduation. This is a large decorated chocolate chip cookie. To make the cookie – prepare chocolate-chip batter. Lightly grease and flour flat cookie sheet. Trace 9″ circle in grease/flour. Spread dough in circle and bake. After the cookie cooled, I decorated mostly using the star tip … Read more
I was asked to make a graduation cake using Perry the Platypus from the Disney show Phineas and Ferb. I found pictures on the internet and enlarged them. I rolled out fondant in the appropriate colors and used the pictures as templates. I replaced Perry’s fedora with a graduation cap and placed a rolled piece … Read more
My youngest sister was graduating High School this year and I really wanted to make her something special! I wanted to bring the whole family together with a fun party, and surprise my sister. My goal was to create a graduation cap cake that looked realistic, and still tasted delicious. I also wanted the cake … Read more
This is the cake I made for my daughter’s preschool graduation. I got the ideas from this website. It is a 9 inch cake made from cake mix. I made the cap using a two-bite brownie at the bottom and cut a square from a chocolate bar for the top. I then dyed chocolate pudding … Read more
I made this Graduation Cake for my best friend’s sons high school graduation. I started with two 9 x 13″ cakes and one 6″ round. I iced the round cake in chocolate icing and the “books” in butter cream tinted blue and orange leaving three sides not iced. I then placed wooden dowels, cut to … Read more
The graduate wanted a cake that represented her three sports. The bottom cake is a two layered 14 inch cake (chocolate and vanilla with raspberry filling). To make the soccer ball I printed a hexagon shape about the size needed, traced it with a toothpick and piped in the black. The middle layer is a … Read more
For this graduation cake I made a three tiered cake and decorated it with buttercream frosting. I made the cap out of fondant.This was made for my son’s graduation party.
I made a large “history” book for this Graduation Cake because grade 12 is now history! The cake was vanilla and the graduation cap was chocolate. The top of the cap is cardboard for stability and the result looks pretty good, I think.
I made this Mascot Graduation Cake for my Grandson’s High school graduation. It is one of three that I made for this event. It is a white cake with white chocolate ganache filling. It is frosted with Italian butter creme frosting. It is made from 2- 10″ round cakes. The characters are made from homemade … Read more
I was asked to make a cake for a dear friend, who’s son was graduating from FAMU as a Sigma. I used Fat Daddios brand cake pans – one considered as a 1/2 sheet and the other as a 1/4 sheet. Both tiers each have 2 layers of cake each with icing in between layers. … Read more
This homemade graduation cake was made for a friend’s daughter’s graduation… she loves monkeys. I made the monkey out of rice krispie treats, as well as the basketball. I then covered them with fondant. The books are red velvet cake (each double layered) covered with buttercream and fondant… everything else on the cake is fondant … Read more
The bottom layer of the Graduation Cap Cake is an upside-down cake, and the top is a square cake. I put a thin piece of cardboard under the top layer to support it. The Tassel is a Twizzler that I cut into strands at the bottom to make it look more realistic! I used a … Read more
This Graduation Cake was made for a friend’s graduation party! I baked and stacked 1/2 of Wilton’s sports ball & 2-13×9 cakes, a little off centered! They were both crumb coated and final iced in the color of the graduation girls choice, then each outlined with the others color! Three sides were iced white with … Read more
This is a homemade book graduation cake that my best friend and I made for our friend that graduated. We slaved for hours…lol :) The books were made from baking three 13×9 confetti cakes. We took a piece of cardboard and covered it with notebook paper that we had doodled all over and placed the … Read more
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