Music Graduation Cake

This cake was made for a friend for his graduation. He's the music minister at his church so he wanted to mix the graduation theme with a music theme.

Since he is an avid piano player, he liked this cake that I made last year for another friend. So I made the same basic cake and added the graduation cap.



The cake is covered with fondant, with fondant add-ons. The graduation cap and tassel are not edible.

Since they were concerned that the one cake might not be enough for their guests, we decided to to a sheet cake as well.



Congratulations, Chris!!

Graduation Cake

I made this cake for our Ozark Christian Academy graduates this past weekend.




There were four graduates, so I put their names on the four sides of the cake. I also put OCA on four sides under their names so they could turn the cake to take pics of their side and have it look like the front of the cake. It worked pretty well.

The cake flavors were strawberry, white and chocolate. I used a pre-made whipped frosting.

The graduation caps and stars were made of scrapbook paper and attached to 18 gauge wire.

Congrats, OCA Seniors!!

Piano Cake

Here's a Piano/Music themed cake I made for a friend's graduation last weekend.

The cake itself was chocolate with my dulce de leche filling in one layer and my chocolate hazelnut filling in the other. It was then covered with almond flavored buttercream, then fondant. All the decorations are fondant except the ribbon curlies on the top and the ribbon around the bottom.

For the notes and music symbols, I printed them off the Internet, cut them out and covered them with clear contact paper. I then used them as patterns to cut the shapes out of fondant.

The music ribbon was from Wal Mart! Just happened to see it when I was buying groceries and thought it would come in handy someday!!

Congratulations, John!!

Kindergarten Graduation, Already?!?

Last night we attended the kindergarten graduation of our oldest granddaughter.

Time just goes by way too fast!! It seems impossible that she is already six years old.

(Here she is posing in front of a giant box or crayons.)

Her class put on a cute little program showing some of what they learned during the school year.

It was so funny!!

She attended a Christian school and there were only six students, four girls and two boys, in her kindergarten class. They spanned the spectrum from painfully shy to absolute extrovert. My granddaughter was somewhere right about in the middle.

After the graduation, my daughter had all of our family that went to the graduation (22 of us) over for pizza.

I made a Mayonnaise Cake (I know, it sounds gross, but it's the most moist chocolate cake you'll ever eat!) and vanilla home made ice cream to finish out the festivities.

It'll be two years until our next granddaughter is old enough to graduate from kindergarten. I'm sure the time will go by way too fast!