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!