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Graduation Cake Ideas | Want to find graduation cake ideas? We have homemade cake photos, preparation tips, recipes and frosting techniques to help you decide which graduation cakes to make


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Cake Decorating--Sugar Orchids
This video about Cake Decorating, how to decorate the Sugar Orchids by Scott Clark Woolley. May give you some ideas for graduation cakes ideas.




Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
Here's a gooey butter cake recipe you're sure to love!

gooey butter cake recipe There are several different kinds of these cakes. Just follow the directions at the bottom of this recipe to try the different versions.

For the crust:
1 (18.5 ounce)box of yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted


For the Filling:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pound box of confectioners sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray a 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish with Non-Stick cooking spray.

In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, the egg, and the melted butter. Pat the dough down into the bottom of the glass baking dish. Set aside.

In the same bowl, mix together softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the confectioners sugar. Beat well and then slowly add the butter until all ingredients are well mixed. Pour onto crust and bake for 40 to 50 minutes.

When you go to take it out of the oven, it will seem awfully "gooey" in the center but it will set up a bit as it cools.

Check out these other variations of this recipe for gooey butter cake!

Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake
Add 1 can (15-ounce) pumpkin pie filling and 1 more egg to the filling. This is way better than pumpkin pie!

Lemon Gooey Butter Cake
Substitute a lemon cake mix for the yellow cake mix
Add the juice and zest of 2 lemons to the filling.

Pineapple Gooey Butter Cake
Add 1 can (20-ounce)crushed, pineapple that has been drained along with 1 more egg to the filling.

Carrot Gooey Butter Cake
Substitute a spice cake mix for the yellow cake mix.
Add 1 1/2 cup grated carrots and 1 cup of chopped nuts to the filling.

Peanut Butter Gooey Butter Cake
Substitiute a chocolate cake mix for the yellow cake mix.
Add 1 cup creamy peanut butter and 1 more egg to the filling.

Banana Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
Add 2 ripe bananas and 1 more egg to the filling.


Graduation Cake Sayings : What to Choose?
After you have a graduation cakes and the next step now what can you write on it. Here are some short graduation cake sayings that you may want to use on that special cake for your new graduate.
  • Congratulations, YOU Did It!
  • Con-GRAD-ulations!
  • Your Perseverance Paid Off!
  • Your a Class Act!
  • Here Is To Your Future
  • Towering Achievement
  • Enjoy Your New Journey
  • Way To Go!
  • You Did It With Flying Colors
  • Never, never, never give up!
  • Today is the first day of the rest of your life
  • On Your Way To Success
  • This Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
  • Your Tassel Was Worth the Hassle!
  • Educated, Graduated, Made-You-Ate-It
  • All Of Your Efforts Have Paid Off
  • Every Life is a Story….Make Yours A Best Seller
  • You Made It!
  • The Sky’s The Limit! Congratulations!
  • The Road To Success, Your On It
  • We Are Proud Of YOU!
  • You Reached the End, Now You Can Start Again
  • Hat’s Off To The Grad
  • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
  • Present Graduate, Future Millionaire!
I hope this will give some ideas to you to write graduation cake saying on cakes.


Chocolate Fig Cake Recipe
This recipe is fairly easy for chocolate fig cake, you can try yourself.

graduation cake ideas | Chocolate Fig Cake RecipeThis is what you need for your chocolate fig cake recipe:
  1. 1 kg dried figs/milled figs/
  2. 250 gram brown sugar with vanilla
  3. 1 lemon/juice/
  4. black chocolate
  5. 250 gram butter
  6. 250 gram milled "petite beurre" biscuits
  7. lass of water
First you put water in pot, add sugar and lemon juice. Cook it for 25 min and you will have syrup. Then you add figs, milled biscuit and mis it for 5 min. Turn out fire and add butter, make sure you mix well. When it became cold make rolls on oil paper and put it on cold place for 1-2 days. After that you can cut in small part as you can see in photo above.


Tres Leches Cake Recipe
Maybe some of us looking for new dessert recipe. For those who living in Miami, they can enjoy the Latin American favourite dessert, Tres Leche Cake. If you want to try a taste of Miami, try this cake, this tres leches cake is called Three Milk Cake

Graduation Cakes Ideas | Tres Leches Cake RecipeTres Leches Cake is made with three different types of milk: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream. There are poured over the cake after it is completely cooked. This adds a unique moisture to the cake. Surprisingly, the cake lasts for several days - if you can hold off from eating it all!

Graduation Cakes Ideas | Tres Leches Cake RecipeTres Leches: Three Milk Cake

1 yellow cake mix (with pudding) baked as directed in 13 by 9-inch pan

For topping mixture:
1 can evaporated milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 pint heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup rum (or to taste)

To finish:
Whipped cream, to cover cake
5 ounces sweetened coconut

Poke holes in the cake with a fork all over. Pour topping mixture over cake. Let mixture absorb completely in refrigerator.

Cover with whipped cream or cool whip and sprinkle sweetened coconut over top of cake.

OPTIONAL: Add macadamia nuts, cherries and/or pineapple.

This post provided by RACHEL


Basic Cake Decorating Ideas And Tips?
Hi friends, how are you?...I hope its a great day for you and i have some basic cake decorating ideas and tips to share with you. Its just basic ideas and i hope it will give some help to you.

Let say you have baked a cake and it has cooled, then you have to decorate it.This can be a fun and pleasurable task, this is also the step that takes a bit of skill and patience. The first thing to know about cake decorating, is the fact that the cake must be completely cooled before you make any attempt to decorate. If the cake is still warm, you will run into many problems.

Let's begin with the basics. The cake decorating tips that are essential and things that you need to know before you. You will need a workplace that will afford enough room to be able to decorate your cake without being cramped. You also need to be away from disturbances and you will not need to move away from because you will be in the way of others.

The next item is to make sure you have gathered all of the tools and ingredients for decorating your cake. Some items you will need are: a syringe or piping bag, the type and size tips you will be using, and the coupler to attach the tips to the piping bag. You will need to plan how you will decorate the cake ahead of time, so you can have all of the tools you need on hand when you begin decorating.

I hope, these tips will allow you to have more fun decorating your cake. You can apply this decorating ideas and tips for your graduation cake ideas, it will be more meaningful.


Common Problems When It Comes To Baking
Here are some common problems when it comes to baking a beautiful, delicious cake:

  • I don’t know what all the baking terms, like “cream” and “fold”, mean!
  • The instructions are confusing – I don’t know how important the order, or brand or type, of ingredients is!
  • How do I know when the cake is ready to take out the oven?
  • How do I get the cake cleanly out of the tin?
  • Now that it’s baked, how do I decorate or present the cake so it looks fabulous?
  • I just want to be able to bake two or three great cakes that are delicious AND versatile!
  • I don’t have fancy appliances or a gourmet budget – what are some quick and easy recipes I can just whip up in one mixing bowl, bake and serve??

Now, if you’re nodding your head in agreement and frustration too – don’t worry, you’re not alone! There are truly THOUSANDS of people who have that sweet tooth, want to be able to bake, but just can’t get their cakes to turn out well!

That's not a big problem now since there are many cakes making course nowadays. The easiest way to learn it is by using video course. So, if you want to have a video course of making cakes, i had a cakes making course to suggest to you, you can find out it here.


Graduation Cake Topper Decorations
I just found this topper decoration and i think its very nice to use it on your cake decoration and this topper will make your graduation cake extra special.






So what do you think about this topper decorations?...


Cake Decorating for Everyone

Graduation cake ideas? believe or not, you can accomplish admirable cakes that attending aloof like they came from the adorned bend bakery, it's not as adamants as it looks. All it absolutely takes is a few bargain accoutrement you can get at your bounded ability store, and lots of practice.


Inexpensive tools? Yes, at the minimum, you will charge a basal set of accoutrement that accommodate a decorating bag, a coupler, and decorating tips. Using buttercream or addition acceptable decorating frosting and you are accessible to get started!


The basal block decorating address involves binding the icing out of the bag while you adviser the tip of the bag to accomplish the architecture you want. Hold the bag in your ascendant hand, with the aberration comatose aloof in the cheat amid your deride and fingers. This puts the "bulge" of the icing into the approach of your hand, and lets you clasp it calmly to accomplish the icing appear out of the tip. You can use your added duke to adviser the tip. Convenience captivation the bag and binding to see how bound the icing comes out, depending on the burden you apply.


You are acclaim to blockage out a few books or videos from your bounded library about block decorating. Otherwise you additionally can booty an anterior chic at your bounded ability or amusement store. These classes are additionally generally offered at association apprenticeship or beat centers in your community. Addition accessible way to adorn cakes is to use specialty block pans and a few basal decorating techniques. Acceptable luck and adore your new hobby! You will anon be authoritative cakes that are the backbiting of your ancestors and friends, with this I hope you can get graduation cake ideas.




Graduation Scroll Cake - Jelly Roll Cake
Simple and cute cake, i know you like it!

Some material if you want to make this cake:

• 2 eggs plus 1 egg white

• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

• 1 cup sugar

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp. baking powder

• 1/4 tsp. salt

• Jelly

• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened

• 3 tbsp. butter,softened

• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

• Decorator's gel

• Fruit leather


Step 1:

Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a 15- x 10-inch jelly roll pan with waxed paper and grease the paper well.

Step 2:

In a bowl, beat the eggs and egg white with an electric mixer on high speed for 5 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of the vanilla extract, then gradually beat in the sugar at

low speed. Stir in the dry ingredients until well mixed.

Step 3:

Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 12 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Step 4:

Invert the hot cake onto a clean towel sprinkled with confectioners' sugar; remove the waxed paper. Trim the cake edges with a sharp knife (adults only) and roll up the hot cake and towel from a narrow end. Let it cool on a wire rack.

Step 5:

Unroll the cooled cake, remove the towel, and spread on jelly, leaving a 2-inch strip at one end plain. Reroll the jelly-covered portion of the cake.

Step 6:

In a bowl, beat together the cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, and the last 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and use to frost the cake.

Step 7:

Use decorator's gel to pipe "roll lines" on the cake ends and the class year or your child's name onto the unrolled portion. Finally, add a fruit leather bow.




Banana Split Cake
This one is a small graduation cakes, i put some tips of how to make it here. Try it!


Supplies Need:
  • 12 x 18 Sheet Cake Pan
  • Glad Graduate Cake Topper
  • Graduation Cap Icing Decorations
  • Graduation Candles
  • 3 packages marble cake mix
  • 1 package (3 oz.) strawberry flavored gelatin
  • 3/4 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 cup cold water 1 package (4 serving size) vanilla instant pudding and pie mix
  • 1 (9 oz.) tub frozen whipped topping, thawed
  • 1 1/2 cups cold milk
  • 4 bananas, sliced

  1. Preheat oven to 325° F. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
  2. Stir in cold water; set aside at room temperature. Grease and flour pan.
  3. Prepare and bake cake 45-50 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack for 10 minutes.
  4. Turn cake onto platter or foil covered cake board; cool an additional 10-15 minutes. Poke deep holes through top of cake with meat fork; space holes about 1 inch apart. With cup, slowly pour gelatin mixture over cooled cake.
  5. Set in refrigerator while preparing filling. For filling, mix instant pudding mix and cold milk in bowl; fold in whipped topping. Using large cake leveler, split cake into two horizontal layers.
  6. A cookie sheet makes a convenient large "spatula" for lifting and replacing the top layer. Spread filling on bottom layer, add banana slices and replace top layer. Ice cake with white buttercream icing. Add graduation pictures in four corners; make with wafer paper or frosting sheets. Mark scallop design using a toothpick, add tip 6 yellow icing. Add tip 8 bubble top & bottom border. Embellish bottom border with addition scallop shell border. Position Glad Grad Statue and icing caps around bottom border. Serves 45-50.



D.A.R.E Graduation Cakes!

D.A.R.E graduation!

This cake was made for Hoover elementary schools 5th grade graduation from the D.A.R.E. Program. Everything on the cake was made of chocolate, the kids really loved that!






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