{"id":5947,"date":"2014-09-09T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cake-geek.com\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T15:49:20","slug":"graduation-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/graduation-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"All Of The Most Gorgeous Graduation Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A special graduation cake makes a beautiful confectionery tribute to the hard work and achievement of a new graduate. Graduation cakes are getting more and more popular each year and this week we have a selection of some of our favourites from top cake designers.<\/p>\n

Our feature cake is by the Little Teacup Bakery, Toronto and features one of the coolest new cake design trends –\u00a0 a chalkboard effect cake – perfectly apt for a new teacher’s graduation.<\/p>\n

The traditional mortarboard worn for graduation ceremonies is given a beautiful feminine touch with shell pink icing, pearls and sugar flowers in the two pretty designs below by Sweet and Saucy<\/a> (left) and by Jenna Rae Cakes<\/a> (right).<\/p>\n

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Pretty bows and floral accents adorn the two glamorous graduation cake designs below from Patisserie Tillemont<\/a> (below right) and via Pinterest (below left).<\/p>\n

Rose Bakes has some helpful tips and pointers on how to make mortar board cake toppers as well as a full size cake here: mortarboard cake tutorial and cake toppers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Pale blue icing and lace piping makes a chic and elegant graduation cake design below by Edible Essence Cake Art<\/a>, Plymouth (left) and on the right, an elegant and cosmopolitan varsity style style graduation cake by Eat Cake Be Merry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Estrele Cakes<\/a>, Italy created this fun and funky polka dot and bow graduation cake for a stylish young graduate.<\/p>\n

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Mimicafe Union<\/a>, New York, creates some of the most fabulous miniature cake toppers, including the characterful little owl graduates below.<\/p>\n

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A tongue-in-cheek graduation cake below for the graduate who prioritizes fun over study.\u00a0 You’ll find the tutorial for this cake here from Global Sugar Art: graduation cake tutorial<\/a>. (Plus we have lots more book cake tutorials in our previous features: Book Cakes, Part 1<\/a> & Book Cakes, Part 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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A brilliant sugar model graduate in cap and gown by Planet Cake, Australia below.<\/p>\n

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Heavenly Cake Pops show you how to make their yummy Ghiradelli chocolate graduation cake pops right here: graduation cake pops tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below right, Antonella Di Maria Torte & Design<\/a> has created a glamourous graduation cake design capturing all the excitement of the occasion.<\/p>\n

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Below we have one of Treehouse Cakes by Kat’s<\/a> splendid picture tutorials – this time a special graduation bear.<\/p>\n

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Two great mortarboard graduation cakes below: The Violet Cake Shop<\/a> have added a nice touch (below left) with the year of graduation on the mortarboard cake topper.\u00a0 On the right,\u00a0 Cake Styling<\/a>, Germany have added a feminine touch with pearl beads and a draped fabric effect just under the mortarboard for an elegant young lady graduate.<\/p>\n

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A smart and classic graduation cake below by BeDazzled Cake Creations<\/a> with the traditional scroll and mortarboard proudly resting on a copy of the PhD graduate’s thesis.<\/p>\n

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Two beautifully finished graduation cakes by Alyssa Hall of Cuteology Cakes<\/a> (below left) and by Sugar Rush Cakes<\/a>, Montreal (below right) including a sugar replica of the scales of justice and a judge’s gavel for a law graduate.<\/p>\n

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Our final two graduation cakes are two superb designs in red and white by Sweet & Saucy (below left) and Linda Bellavia Cake Art (below right).<\/p>\n

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A special graduation cake makes a beautiful confectionery tribute to the hard work and achievement of a new graduate. Graduation cakes are getting more and more popular each year and this week we have a selection of some of our favourites from top cake designers. Our feature cake is by the Little Teacup Bakery, Toronto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-novelty-cake-designs-and-tutorials","tag-simple-cake-decorating-ideas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31044,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/31044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake-geek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}