Cake #2 - Two-Tiered Graduation Cake

Now it was on to the cake that I would spend the most time on and be the most proud of! The request was for a unique graduation cake, with photos, that would serve around 100 people. It was to display the grad's name and feature the class motto.

Rather than do the standard sheet cakes, we decided to build up. The bottom is a 12-inch square white cake, with a 9-inch chocolate hexagon cake on top. I used fabric ribbon to tie around the bottom layer, and penned the class motto above.

For the top layer, I made photo mattes out of red colorflow, and sealed wallet-sized photos onto them with royal icing. The name was displayed as part of the cake topper in black colorflow. I used lollipop sticks secured to the back of the name with royal icing to help it remain sturdy. I found the confetti in the background as part of a graduation decoration at a party store. I cut apart the original decoration and used hot glue to place portions of it into flower spikes, which I placed behind the paper cap and diploma.

Overall I was very pleased with how this one turned out!