When your child graduates from high school, you will probably want to celebrate with a party. Whether this is a large event involving many friends, or a small occasion with just immediate family you will be looking for high school graduation cake ideas.

There are so many options available and not all require huge catering skills to achieve an impressive result.

One simple idea involves two 9 x 13″ cakes and one round 6″ cake.
The overall look will be of two schoolbooks, on top of each other and set at an angle, with the round cake placed on top. This will become the graduation cap.
For the books, you make up your butter cream and separate into two bowls. You then choose the colors you desire, which could incorporate the school colors, and tint each bowl with a little food coloring. It is probably best to have contrasting colors for the best result.

Graduation cake idea

Leave three edges of the books plain at this stage, as you will later fill these in with white butter cream whilst also writing the subject of the books down one side. It may be nice to add your child’s two favorite subjects at this point.
For the cap, you simply cut a cake board to the exact size of the round cake. Decorate the cake with chocolate icing and add licorice strands for the tassels. These can be attached using a little more chocolate icing.
Then gently place the cake on top of the pile of books.

If you are concerned about your skills when icing then there is an even easier option.

Choose the size of cake that you will need and ice simply and plainly in whatever color you like.
You can then take a recent photograph of your child and have it printed onto edible frosting sheets. You then decide where on the cake you want to place the picture and gently put into position.

Graduation cake (Custom)

For an added touch, you may like to make a copy of the school logo, enlarge it and then trace the image onto the cake with cake decorating pens.
There are many accessories available, even two piece graduation caps, which you can buy in advance and maybe put a little gift inside for your child to keep as a memento of the occasion.

Wafer paper, cake decorating pens and highlighting dust are all easily available so it really is a case of experimenting and coming up with your own variation of one of these ideas.

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