Graduation Cake Ideas

This page has graduation cake ideas to help celebrate that wonderful time when someone special graduates and has accomplished so much. Whether it is a simple cake with a graduation cap or something else please submit your graduation cake decorating ideas below to our cake gallery.

We've also included some graduation cupcake ideas below.

This cake is a graduation cap cake that is being filled in with stars and adding a rope tassel.
You can easily trace a graduation cap on a large sheet cake with a toothpick. Then fill in and decorate.

Free Cake Decorating Ideas

• Use the Wilton Graduate Cake pan. Here are Wilton's instructions on decorating a graduate.

• Trace a pattern of a graduation cap onto a large cake fill in and decorate.


• Graduation Cupcakes Ideas. Make small graduation hats out of fondant and place on each cupcake or add a small piece of paper rolled up and tied with a pretty string to look like a diploma.

Photo courtesy of quintanaroo

Photo courtesy of clevercupcakes

More Graduation Cake Pictures

Photo courtesy of samdogs
A fun two tier cake decorated with fondant
letters and a star for each graduate.

photo courtesy of chaparral

Graduation Cake Video Tutorial

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