Well, graduation time is here and orders are coming in! My mother-in-law ordered this cake for a good friend of hers who went back to school to finish her nursing degree. I thought it would be nice to add a little girliness to the cake so I pulled in the color pink to spice it up.
I used my favorite chocolate cake recipe from Ina Garten and then added coffee whipped cream filling and covered the cake in chocolate mousse buttercream.
I used cookie cutters to cut out the diploma and graduation cap fondant accents and then used royal icing to pipe the borders around the shapes.
Congratulations to all the grads out there!
Tags: diploma cookie cutter, graduation cakes, graduation cookie cutter
Look so tasty, yum yum. I LOVE chocolate. All your works and cakes are marvellous!!
It’s absolutely classic looking!
Wow, great looking cake… looks very professional and tasty. I had to make some things for grad parties myself, fun isn’t it?
Looks wonderful! Coffee and Chocolate…what could be better?
Beautiful cake!
What a beautiful cake. I wish I was there to have a piece!
What a beautiful cake! I like the the little girliness you added to it:))
i’d almost go back to school again if i was promised a cake like that upon graduation…
…almost.
(i think 20 years of schooling is gonna do it for me.)(good lord, have i really been going to school for 4/5 of my life?)(yikes.)
The inside of that cake looks heavenly! Thanks for sharing your recipes!
Very nice job. I like the pink accents and have been thinking of digging into some fondant. Well, working with it anyway…The filling in this cake looks heavenly!
That is a beautiful cake!
Oh I love your chocolate cake base, it looks so moist and rich! fantastic!
That cake looks so good. Just look at all of the thick layers.
WOW! It’s amazing! I bet the chocolate and coffee combo makes it taste so good…
I love the pink.
I would love to know how you get the buttercream so smooth….
My sister just graduating Nursing school from ASU!! So many grads to be proud of! This cake is just beautiful!
@ Sweet Sins 2 Share:
From which ASU did your sister graduate?
I earned my RN from ASU many (10?) years ago, then moved to Maryland to attend Johns Hopkins where I earned my M.D.
I am SOOooo happy that I traded my Master’s degree in Education for an RN degree, which led to my present job.
I must thank my husband, DocChuck, for his help in realizing my dream to be a medical doctor.
SO cute!!! Happy graduation! I love your piping!!
Wow – I am mega impressed. It would be such a delight to cut into that cake and find all of the beautiful layers. I am still learning how to properly ice a cake and would love to have your skills in making the outer icing so smooth.