Browse Graduation Cake Ideas

A Study in Success Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

This book shaped graduation cake looks good enough to read! With all the reading your graduate has done over the past 4 years, this personalized graduation cake is a perfect way to say “a job well done.”

Capping off their Education! Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Hats off to your graduate’s success with this personalized three-layer cake! Decorate with fondant caps, figures and a fondant message cut with Alphabet & Number Cut-Outs Fondant Cutters.

The Best and Brightest Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Three diamond-shaped tiers topped by a mortarboard cake baked in our Mini Wonder Mold Pan. The colorful cake side candy accents are molded in the Graduation Lollipop Mold.

Hitting the Books Graduation Cake

Difficulty: No reviews

Pomp and Circumstance never tasted so sweet. Celebrate your special graduate’s new chapter in life with this bookish graduation cake. Use either the boy or girl graduate Shape-N-Amaze 3-D character to top your cake.

Chocolate Checkerboard Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

It’s a chocolate-lovers dream: a chocolate-and-vanilla checkerboard cake iced in chocolate buttercream icing. It’s topped with candy accents molded with delicious Candy Melts candy.

Thinking Cap Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

For the student who gets the details right, here’s the perfect cake. The sides are created from fondant with our Graceful Vines Fondant Mat, which imprints the beautiful leaf and tendril design.

Salute the Students Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Serve a cake as star-studded as the graduation ceremony. Use the Star Power Fondant Imprint Mat to imprint the cool constellations which you can highlight with dazzling Pearl Dust colors.

Congratulate the Graduate Cake

Difficulty: Medium

This cake is a step up from other graduation cakes. This beautiful two-tiered cake features a diploma and mortarboard that you can personalize to really celebrate your graduates.

It's All Locked Up! Graduation Cake

Difficulty: Easy

This locker-shaped graduation cake goes a long way to creating a unique way to say congratulations. With traditional locker “decorations” and realistic looking locker doors, your graduate won’t soon forget this symbol of 4 years of success.

Celebrating Her Success Graduation Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

This mortarboard graduation cake comes complete with a tassel! There’s nothing more iconic than a mortarboard when it comes to graduation. This important yet fun rite of passage is easily commemorated in this easy to create graduation cake.

A Picture Of Contentment Cake

Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Use real photos to make your cake A Picture of Contentment. Celebrate the occasion by adding laminated photographs to this picture album cake.

Pomp and Circumstance Checkerboard Cake

Difficulty: No reviews

Celebrate the graduate with honors with a cake created with the Checkerboard Cake Pan Set. This regal dessert is decked with diplomas, mortarboard and stars and made in custom school colors.

Capping Off Success Graduation Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Create a graduation cake with a surprise inside—your graduate's school colors presented in a checkerboard pattern!

Graduation Congratulations Cake

Difficulty: Easy

Commemorate the commencement by using Sugar Sheets! embellishments to enhance a sheet cake. Stripes, leaves and diploma are easy to cut and shape.

Opening A New Door Cake

Difficulty: Medium

This schoolhouse is rocking! Build it with five stacked cakes and a cookie pop message that shouts the excitement from the rooftop.

Dreamy Ice Cream Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Celebrate the joys of summer with a cool, creamy, satisfying ice cream creation. No baking needed for the Dreamy Ice Cream Cake! Featuring the sweet simplicity of vanilla ice cream surrounding a refreshing orange sherbet filling, this unique frozen treat is a true crowd pleaser.