Andrea's Graduation Cake 2008

by CGilileo
(Lakeland, Fl)

Andrea's graduation cake was made with two 12" X 18" cakes. One butter recipe yellow and the other devils food chocolate. After cooling, I cut them using a template of the Lakeland High School Logo. I then iced them with fudge icing in the middle and buttercream icing for the exterior tinted orange & white for the school colors.

After the letter "L" was complete, I made two 8" round cakes, cooled and stacked them with fudge icing in the middle, then carved them to resemble the bottom portion of the graduation cap. I covered them with black fondant and trimmed the bottom with black icing. I cut out the square top using cardboard covered in black fondant. I secured the cardboard to the base of the cap using a skewer...fastened the tassle (a 2008 keychain sized tassle) to the skewer and topped the skewer with a button-sized ball of black fondant. I finished with personalizing the graduation cap with her name and Class of 2008.
Congrats Andrea!