Graduation Cake

Schools are letting out for the summer, so with that comes graduation time! Here are a few pictures of a cake I made the other day for a graduating high school senior! This was the first graduation cake I have made and it was super fun to come up with a design showcasing the school logo, colors and interests of the cake recipient!

I was super excited about how smooth I was able to get the buttercream frosting I just had to take a picture! Viva paper towels are definitely your best friend when it comes to smoothing out your icing! A few cake decorating friends had given me this advice but this was the first time I put the Viva towel to the test, works like a charm!

I made the graduation cap using a cookie cutter and then piped on royal icing for the trim and used yellow fondant to create the tassels.

The school mascot was a hornet so I printed out the image from their website and used as a guide. I actually traced the outline of the hornet on top of some rolled out yellow fondant and cut around it with an x-acto knife. I used small pieces of black fondant for the eyes and white fondant for the wings. Then I piped in all the fine details using black royal icing.

Using more cookie cutters and rolled fondant I created a baseball and football to showcase the graduate's athletics through his high school years! Best of luck Jeremy as you head off to college!