Graduations are those once-in-a-lifetime moments! And thus, they deserve a one-of-a-kind cake that will add a sweet, creamy, fondant-laced tinge to these nostalgic memories. Now, we aren’t talking about those simple, boring chocolate cakes(yummy as they might be) but something more creative.
Let’s just say they’re not just a treat for the tummy, but the mind and soul as well. Just be ready to take a lot of pictures for your Instagram before you even think of bringing the cutting knife and candles near them!
Graduation Cakes Ideas
Here is a handpicked list of creative cake ideas to help you get the cake ready for your graduation party, or even if you are throwing one for one of your dear friends or family. Trust us, you are going to score enough brownie points to last a lifetime if you give one of these as a graduation gift. So let’s get you started on the list:
A graduation cake should be decorated with items that remind you of the immense milestone you have crossed in your life!! Thus, a fondant decoration of a scholar’s hat and a degree scroll is not just an eye-catching, mouth-watering addition but a matter of pride! Decorate the black hat and white scroll with golden glitter at the base, and there you get a cake that screams graduation vibes!
What better way to celebrate graduation than to bid adieu to your old school and embrace the new school with an elan! And as a tribute to both, put both the school names on a beautiful white cream-laced cake!
A polka dot-themed case that brings the whole class together in celebration is an excellent way to end your graduation party. It can be in soft colors like beige, white, black, and golden, or a color-popping one if you are in the mood for some fun! Mention the class batch on the top with a stick-on needle and share the nostalgia-dripping cake with everyone; of course, keep the biggest bite for yourself!
A double-story cake for a once-in-a-lifetime achievement of graduating from school sure doubles the joy! And once in a while, it is good to let go of the ground and fly high, anchored to the dream clouds instead. Depicted beautifully in this cake, adding a few balloons on the top and the college name beneath completes this picture of new ambition stemming from old memories of the previous school.
If you want to keep it simple and classic with no fuss, a big black scholar cap on a simple white base with a black ribbon to complete the elegance is the way to go. After all, you can never go wrong with a little black cake!
If your vibe is bold and loud, you can never go wrong with the red color! Paint the cake in your school colors as a fine salutation to your school, and add your school name on the front for everyone to read, relive, and remember forever. You can also add your school emblem to your decorations or make one if you do not have it already!
Graduation is not the end, it is the beginning of new beginnings! And why not use your graduation cake to get the message across? A degree scroll on the side to tell everyone that we are ready, and a globe on the top to symbolize the world of opportunities at hand, with a final scholar hat to top it all up, is a perfect theme-based cake decoration!
We may graduate with flying colors, but the minion love is hard to leave behind. So as a tribute to our school memories and our minion memories, a little cake with our minions graduating in a black robe and white hat is an exciting way to get creative on the cake.
Sometimes a specific part of school memories leaves a mark on us more than the others. So how about personalizing the graduation cake with these beautiful memories that give us a sense of achievement and immense pride? So, if suppose you are the basketball champion of your school, then a basketball-themed cake with your picture imposed on the front scoring a goal is just the way to superimpose and etch the cake into your memory forever!
If you were a Peppa Pig fan in your childhood, then welcoming the adult life of college should start with a Peppa Pig-themed cake. And let’s put our Peppa Pig into graduation robes to add to the fun element while it embraces the future with open arms.
If humor and sarcasm were your niches in school and life in general, then your graduation cake should contain an element of drama and suspense as well. And if you are in the mood for something, particularly gruesome, then a skeleton with its scary robes and a knife in hand can set the mood for a scary late-night-after party as well! Of course, you need to put a dash of red blood on it as well(red color cream really, let’s not get carried away)!
Your cake can portray your entire personality on it! An example would be this lovely lemon cake filled with strawberry curd, vanilla buttercream, and a rose gold metallic drip. What personal about this, you ask? Well, it has multiple features representing dance, theatre, criminal justice, Muskingum University, ACPA, and graduating with honors. You can use these or put one of your features if you are into books, skating, or whatever activity that has caught your fancy lately!
You can top your cakes with fondant-made photo frames and get nostalgic pictures imposed on them. Decorate it with books, pencils, and other stationery and cute graduating kids’ cartoons to make it all a colorful mess. Now, this is one cake you would want to have and eat, too!
If you are a maths nerd or a computer gadgets freak, this cake is so meant for you. A scholar’s cap and scroll, a computer, a phone, and lots of dollars, all carefully placed around with a beautiful human mind graphic, is the best way to wish the best of luck to your future!
Wrapping up,
Today’s generation is flowing with creativity and innovativeness and we refuse to settle for anything that has been done and dusted for ages. That is why our graduation cake has to match our vibe!
And so does our grad cap! Need some help there, too? We have your back. Here are 25 cool grad cap ideas so that you can mix and match them with your grad cake ideas to make it one spectacular event!!
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