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Photography Themed Grad Cake

14 Thursday Jun 2018

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It’s graduation season and here is one of my favorites done for a young girl graduating from high school and pursuing an education in graphic arts…

Her mother wanted a simple grad hat with a shout out to photography, Alyssa’s passion.

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It’s an 8-inch confetti cake, filled and frosted with vanilla buttercream,  The base of the mortar board and the camera are rice cereal treats covered with black fondant.  The flat top of the cap is a piece of cardboard covered with fondant to give it support.  All of the other details were made using homemade marshmallow fondant.

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She also had graduation caps and diploma cookies with her colors, coral and gold, for the event.

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Congrats on your graduation, Alyssa!  

I really enjoyed doing your sweet treats!

 

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Graduation Cake and Cookie Ideas

25 Tuesday Apr 2017

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It’s almost graduation season, so start planning those parties!  I really can’t believe how huge graduation parties are here in Ohio…much bigger than celebrations where I grew up.

These are some examples of half-sheet cakes that are a good party-size and can serve a bunch when made with 2 layers.

These 2 graduation cakes I did for a Poland Seminary High School graduate last year who was going to Ohio State in the fall.

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This Cardinal Mooney cake I did a few years ago (before I discovered how cutting letters out of fondant is much cleaner … and straighter :)).  The graduate was going to the University of Dayton…

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These are full sheet cakes, which I don’t make often as they are difficult to manage in my regular-sized fridge.  I love this black and yellow theme with swirls and stars.  It really says “Let’s CELEBRATE…you’ve done it!!”

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For this one I made a 3-d mortar board and decorated it with stars, sprinkles and fondant twists. Here’s the post that describes it in more detail.

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This cake is for a smaller celebration…followed by a group of specialty cakes.

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And you always need cookies, right?

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Yellow and Black Graduation Cookies

22 Sunday May 2016

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It’s time for school colors and graduation caps!  These cute cutout cookies I made as a mail order for a graduate in Arizona who’s school colors are yellow and black.  Not sure of the school name, but it’s acronym is “BPHS”…

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They are very similar to the cookies I made for a Cardinal Mooney grad last year….

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Congrats to all the graduates out there…you’ve worked hard for this, ENJOY!

 

 

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Cardinal Mooney Graduation Cookies

09 Wednesday Sep 2015

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I made these graduation cookies for a boy who was graduating from Cardinal Mooney High School last spring.  The mom wanted Mooney colors (cardinal red and gold) in the shape of and “M” for Mooney and a graduation cap with tassels in the school colors.

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The graduation caps were fairly time consuming as I had numerous steps and layers of royal icing that required drying time in between.

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After drying, I packaged them up as favors for the graduation party.

Congratulations on your graduation, Jack!  Hope you enjoyed your cookies as much as I did making them!

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Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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