Graduation Cake Ideas

Here are some of the best graduation cake ideas that I have found around the net. I hope the owners don’t mind me sharing them with you. I find pictures like these help to give inspiration and ideas to use on your own graduation cakes.

Now for my top list of graduation cake ideas for a graduation celebration:

Graduation Cake Ideas - Horseshoe Cake Pan

Graduation Cake Ideas - Yearbook & Cap

Use the graduation cap cake pan and put in on top of an 11 x 15 sheet cake. Decorate the sheet cake like it is a yearbook and decorate the cap in the school colors.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Transfer Any Design

One of the neat graduation cake ideas is to transfer any design onto wax paper, then place it onto the cake.

• scan a picture onto your computer.
• enlarged it, then printed it out.
• tape the enlarged picture onto a cookie sheet.
• take wax paper and tape it over the print out.
• Trace over the design with chocolate chips that have been melted and put into a pastry bag.
• Put the outline of the picture into the freezer until it sets
• Very gently peel off the wax paper and place it onto the cake.
• You can do this technique with any design, remember it will be a mirror image though as you will use the smooth side of the chocolate up.

 

Graduation Cake Ideas - Graduation Cap Making

The caps on the following cake are made out of craft foam. Another of the graduation cake ideas is to add them later to your scrapbook.

You could also pipe a graduation cap onto your cake using a graduation cap pattern.

Decorate the entire cake with a plastic graduation cap (from ebay) to the top of your cake with a butter cream tassel, a butter cream transfer of the school emblem and a fondant diploma. Just like this example:

The simplest cake ever – a chocolate cake covered in chocolate icing. Then roll out some ready to roll fondant icing and cut out the shape of a graduation hat and then roll a small rectangle of it up to make the scroll. Add the tassel and a ribbon around the scroll in whatever colour of icing you want. Then of course write a message on it. Just like this lovely picture below:

Here is another simple yet lovely design. It just looks like fondant icing with black coloring added then rolled thinly and cut into a square. Then a butter-cream message and tassel added.

Graduation Cake Ideas - School Lockers

How about a set of school lockers made by setting loaf pan size cakes side by side and decorating them. Great presentation - especially for guys. You could make different flavors of cakes.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Cupcakes

Instead of one large cake, you could make some cute graduation cup cakes and arrange them on a tiered stand. They make great favors to take home too. Click here for a whole page full of graduation cupcake information.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Diploma Cake

I found this lovely one on the net – I am sure the owner won’t mind me sharing this with you. Here are the details on how she made it:

Make a sheet cake, then cut a 4 inch strip off one short end. This will leave you with the square part of the diploma. Place a paper cup on the bottom left and top right corner to carve around to the get the curved edge of the diploma. Next cut two pieces out if the strip and do the same paper cup thing to one corner of each of them for the "tails" of the paper scroll. Find logos for each school online, print them out, then used the pin-prick method to transfer all images and writing to cake, then followed the outline with icing!

Graduation Cake Ideas - Flowers

If you are good at decorating cakes with flowers then go ahead and do that and add the following message: (graduates name), your hard work has blossomed!

Or you could decorate a sheet cake with the first initial of the graduates name. This could be done with different flowers and then decorate with other flowers around the edge.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Cake Central

Check out cake central for some wonderful cake decorating ideas.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Themed Graduation Cakes

It’s a good idea to decorate the cake with the graduate’s hobby - makes it more personal.

Or if the graduate has an adored pet then go onto google image search and find something to copy. You could add a diploma in it's mouth.

Or if you are having a themed graduation party then go to the themed graduation cake ideas page to discover ideas for cakes covering the following themes:

• Pirate
• Clown
• Casino
• Mardi Gras
• Fifties
• Hollywood
• Safari
• Luau
• Sea
• Superhero
• Wild West.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Photo Book Cake

How about make a cake using a book cake pan – you’ll find them on ebay.
Cover the cake in ready-to-roll fondant icing and then purchase an edible photo of the graduate from www.picturethatcake.com. Place the photo on one side and pipe a message on the other side.

Graduation Cake Ideas - For a Medical Graduation

Graduation cakes for a medical graduate seem to be in demand. Try adding fondant icing molded in medical themed shapes i.e. thermometers, stethoscopes, etc. Just like this one.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Sheet Cake with a Quote or Motto

This is a nice simple one of the graduation cake ideas. Why not bake a large sheet cake, cover it with some delicious butter-cream icing and then add a thought provoking graduation quote to it - you'll finds loads of graduation quotes to choose from here. If you are great with a piping bag then go for it or you can get these little tubes of gel in supermarkets that are really easy to write with. I have even found a plastic pen in my local shop called the “cookery nook” which you can fill with icing and just squeeze and use like an ordinary pen.

You could even use an edible pen – better to cover your cake in ready-to-roll fondant icing for this option though.

See below this nice example I found on the net.

Graduation Cake Ideas - Decorate with M&Ms

OK, this is a photo of a 16th birthday cake but it gives you an idea of how it could look. Perhaps the M&Ms could spell out the graduates name or even say "Congrats" or "Class of ....". You can select any color of M&M and you could even add the graduates name or picture to the M&Ms - they look fantastic and everyone loves them.

Graduation Cake Ideas - More Ideas

More graduation cake ideas are:

• Shape the cake as a book or say three books. Color the books differently and give them names like Math, English and Physics.



• Use different colorings. For example color a graduation cap red and have a gold tassel.


• Have a smiley face cake. This could be a smiley face under a graduation cap. You could also serve smiley face cup cakes.



• One of the better graduation cake ideas is to create a number of star shapes around a large graduation cake. Place photos of the graduate at different ages in the stars.



• If the class is quite small then you could recognise each graduate in the cake. Create a white scroll and add each name in gold edible ink. One of the simple but effecive graduation cake ideas.



• The graduate may be going on to be a doctor, lawyer, optician, vet or other professional. In that case the shape of decorations could be like a hospital, legal pad, glasses, animal or any image that goes with the job.



• The graduate may be a Math, English or Chemistry major in which case you can have books or decorations with an abacus, Shakespeare quote or chemistry equipment.



• If the graduation also honors the country of the graduate you can use the flag as a decoration or perhaps there is a national emblem that you can use like a four leaf clover for Ireland.



• If the theme is movies you can use a ticket style for the cake.



• If the graduate loves singing and music then you could base the cake on a music sheet or musical instrument.

Share Your Graduation Cake Ideas

To help inspire your family, friends and other visitors please take a moment and submit your graduation cake photos, ideas, recipes and tips.

If you would like to share your cakes with us send us your cake photos, recipes and tips and also the story behind them, perhaps the graduate just loves the cake flavor you used. We will create your own web page and photo gallery hosted on our site. If you share your cake details you will be automatically entered into our next contest. This year the prize fund is increased to $300. There is a grand prize and runners up prizes.

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