Graduation Cake

The graduation cake was a two tier carrot cake, bottom tier 10” round with an 8” book cake on top.

The design was one the customer had brought in with a few adjustments to be made on wording, colour and toppers.

I made the cap and scroll out of sugar paste so her daughter could keep them. They were both easy to do –

For the cap I rolled out black sugar paste, used the Wilton roller cutter to get a strip that I wrapped around a circle cutter to dry for the base and a square piece that was bigger than the disc that would sit on top. Once once both piece had dried fully (it took a number of days to be completely dry) I secured them together with edible glue.

For the scroll I rolled out a piece of white sugar paste straightened the edges and rolled it up, finished it off with a pink fondant ribbon and allowed to dry.

The bottom tier was covered in fondant and decorated with black and pink circles, finished with a white fondant ribbon and bow. The top tier I carved out half an inch of cake around the top, bottom and one side to give it a book look. Dirty iced it, then put the white fondant around the carved out section and pink over the rest leaving it slightly wider at the edges so it could be tucked under to cover any raw edges. I finished it off with the wording and then the cap and scroll.