Graduation Cake Ideas

6 Tips for the Best Graduation Cake Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:00 +0000

Hi readers, how are you? In this post i want to share six tips for best graduation cake ideas for your inspiration and guidance for planning the upcoming prom. We want to make graduation cake as a mark the end of a course of study, success and new business on the horizon. Each celebration has its history, cake, decorations, special rituals and music. Thorough preparation will ensure that your party is known for many years.

1. Choose Exciting Flavors, Colors and Cake

The readymade graduation cake at the grocery store often limits to chocolate or vanilla. Always do custom order for graduation cakes, so you can choose from a wide range of styles, colors and types of cake. There is nothing wrong with a standard butter cake, but there are other options, such as cheesecake, pound cake, ice cream cake, fudge or foam. Consider the marble, the aroma of berry fruit, tangy citrus, coffee and hazelnut trees. Frosting and filling flavors can be identical or different, for example lemon with chocolate, vanilla with chocolate or strawberry and vanilla.

When choosing colors, think about flavor, party decor, and of course any theme. Some designers incorporate school colors - finished the program or level of education on. Use graduated favorite colors are another option.

2. Match Of Graduation Cake For The Occasion

Now match the cake for the occasion after throwing around ideas for the completion of the graduation cake ideas. List a few basic informations. How old is a graduate? She is ready for kindergarten or a degree? The cake should respect the graduates of the class, a group of friends graduating, or achievements of a person? What kind of effect desired, a? Formal, serious, smart, funny, or funny How many servings are needed?

There are several ways to earn a great gathering. Many cakes can be arranged side by side, stacked or tiered. Stacking can be symmetrical or asymmetrical design collage. The cupcakes are often served in large series. They can be displayed on cake plates at various levels on a cupcake tree, or as part of a sculpture.

3. Entertaining Theme Cake Designs Graduate

A graduation can be celebrated with a theme party or a cake theme that reflects something about the life of the him or her. Maybe you decide to develop the lot on clothes, art, music and food from a state, province or country. Your choice may be based on travel plans past or future, a language that the student has excelled in the location of the next scene of the student's education or a favorite type of music.

Another topic ideas can flow into overtime and benefits of the student. Sports, dance, hip-hop, singing, musicality, horseback riding, dog training, processing, discussed, or to talk to mobile phones may appear on the graduation cake decorations. If you have a special gift graduation, such as a car or jewelry, the cake can celebrate an exciting gift.

4. Shaped Graduation Cakes Are In Fashion

Don't place limitation on decorating, the cake can be an object, animal or human. Ideas of young people is a crown of jewels, a favorite cartoon character, a star, a teddy bear dressed as an owl or candidate. Sports for all ages can enjoy football, hockey stick, skates, or other symbol that represents the favorite sport.

Classical forms of the exam is a diploma, a graduation cap, or both. A graduation cap cake is perfect for a student to complete high school, college or university. But a traditional design is not a requirement for a level of landmark grad. You can always get something humorous, like a cake decorated like a high school locker, a set of luggage for a world traveler, or a plane to a pilot graduate.

5. Graduation Cupcakes May Be Surprising

Cupcakes are often successful because they can be offered in different flavors, appetizing and attractive models. Investing in the figures cupcakes are a simple way to offer wedding favors. The cupcake is a classic design grad cap upside down cupcake made from a spherical shape, flat on a cookie, with strings and tassels of licorice.

6. Original Toppers Commercial

Figurines, plates, frames, decorations and can improve the basic or the work of a professional. Purchase toppers online or craft stores offer many graduation cake ideas. Toppers could make images more realistic. Symbols include school books, rulers, scissors, apples, school buses, boards, mortar boards and diplomas. Toga further Figurines are available in many different styles and opinions and are very high on the completion of the placing on the top of the cake.

For non-academic subjects such as travel, sports, movies, music, etc., there many choices of toppers can be used. They have their own cake inventory of topper for some designers, others encourage you to give your own for a specialized theme.

Homemade marshmallows

noreply@blogger.com (admin) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:53:00 +0000

Cake by VioletK@photobucket

Kids usually love marshmallows, my daughter like to sprinkle it on her chocolate smoothie. Making marshmallows doesn’t involve any baking, but I thought it would be nice to know how to make one, especially when we can make marshmallow fondant out of it. And maybe this tutorial will be helpful in areas where it is not easy to get halal marshmallows. This recipe is taken from my favourite book, “The River Cottage Family Cookbook” by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Fizz Carr. Be careful as it involves boiling sugar.

Ingredient
Icing sugar - 1 tablespoon
Cornstarch - 1 tablespoon
Vegetable oil to oil the pan and knife
Gelatin powder - 1 tablespoon
Food colouring
Egg white - 2
Granulated sugar - 2 cups (gula kasar biasa)
Water - 1 1/2 cup

Method

Sift the icing sugar and cornflour. Take a shallow square pan (I use the one to make swiss roll). Grease it with a generous amount of vegetable oil, then coat with the sugar mixture. Set aside.

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Making a Sponge Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:39:00 +0000

Sponge cake is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder, that derives its structure from an egg foam into which the other ingredients are folded. The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first of the non-yeasted cakes, and though it does not appear in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery in the late 18th century, it is found in Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife, indicating that sponge cakes had been established in at least some Anglophone countries by the early 19th century.

Making a sponge cake

A typical sponge cake is made by beating the eggs with sugar until they are light and creamy, then carefully sieving and folding in the flour (depending on the recipe, the flour may be mixed with a small amount of baking powder, though some recipes use only the air incorporated into the egg mixture, relying on the denaturing of the egg proteins and the thermal expansion of the air to provide leavening). Sometimes, the yolks are beaten with the sugar first while the whites are beaten separately to a meringue-like foam, to be gently folded in later. The mixture is then poured into the chosen cake tin and baked. As can be seen, both methods take great care to incorporate air in the beating, whisking and sieving stages. This makes a very light product, but it is easy to lose the air by removing the cake before it has finished in the oven.

Before the mixture has cooled, after cooking, it is still flexible. This allows the creation of rolled cakes such as the Swiss roll, or the Bûche de Noël. This basic recipe is also used for many treats and puddings, such as Madeleine's, ladyfingers and trifles, as well as some versions of strawberry shortcake. In addition, the sponge cake technique is used in angel food cake (where only egg whites are used) and some recipes for Belgian waffles (where the egg whites are separated from the yolk and folded into the batter at the end of preparation).
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An orchid cake for adult cake ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Things you need:

* A round cake

* Fondant

* Royal icing in light purple, dark purple and yellow (for the orchids) and green (for the leaves)

Decorating tips:
Firstly, you will need to prepare the flowers and leaves. The orchids are piped using a star nozzle in light purple icing. Pipe the flowers onto wax paper. Using dark purple icing, pipe a dot at the bottom of each flower and finally pipe two tiny dots of yellow icing on each dark purple dot.

As for the leaves, use a leaf nozzle and pipe long leaves on wax paper. Leave them aside to set.

Once the flowers and leaves are set, peel of the wax paper.

On the day you assemble the cake, cover your cake with fondant. Using royal icing, attach the leaves and flowers onto the cake according to your preference.

Cake Baking Tips - You Can Do It

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:46:00 +0000

There are many ways to bake a cake, i want to share one of them here...

Temperature & Cookware

If your oven temperature is questionable, invest in an oven thermometer. Some ovens can be off by as much as 75°.
Before mixing the batter, prepare the pans, turn the oven on, and make sure the rack is in the center.
Shiny pans reflect the heat, and are your best choice for cake baking.
Reduce the oven temperature by 25° when using glass pans.
Substitute 8-inch square pans for round if you want, or use 2 to 3 8 X 4-inch loaf pans. The baking time will be less, so begin checking about 15 minutes before the time suggested.
Have all ingredients at room temperature for best results.
Grease pans with about 1 tablespoon of fat per layer pan.
Use cocoa (or carob powder) instead of flour for dusting a greased pan when making a chocolate cake.

Cake Decorating--Sugar Orchids

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:59:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Here's a gooey butter cake recipe you're sure to love!

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?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:45:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:54:00 +0000

This recipe is fairly easy for chocolate fig cake, you can try yourself.

This is what you need for your chocolate fig cake recipe:

1 kg dried figs/milled figs/
250 gram brown sugar with vanilla
1 lemon/juice/
black chocolate
250 gram butter
250 gram milled "petite beurre" biscuits
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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:29:00 +0000

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

Tres 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!

Tres 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?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:43:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:56:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:42:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:11:00 +0000

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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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:14:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:53:00 +0000

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

Preheat oven to 325° F. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
Stir in cold water; set aside at room temperature. Grease and flour pan.
Prepare and bake cake 45-50 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack for 10 minutes.
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.
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.
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!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:44:00 +0000

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!