Hello all my sugar friends!
I hope you all are having a great summer so far. Down here is NOLA it is hot and humid as always! I hope those of you that were in the path of the recent tornadoes and bad storms are doing ok, and that the effects were minimal. I pray daily for those who sustained injury to home or person.
Well, graduation season is just ending, so I thought I would post a picture of this cake I had to get done really quickly. (And I apologize for the low quality cell phone pic at that.)
My oldest son has graduated from college this summer (how in the heck is THAT possible?) He has 3 cousins also graduating from high school and college, so my sister in law and I combined them all into one big crawfish boil/BBQ party.
There were 3 schools, 5 colors, 2 genders, and 4 graduates I had to incorporate all into one cake somehow. And I had to do it in 48 hours. I have been so insanely busy getting the new online cake decorating school website ready, (more on that coming very soon!), I just did not have a lot of time to do stuff ahead of time. So I went for a clean and simple design incorporating the 3 schools and the graduates’ names.
I applied colored fondant bands with coordinating trim, each tier representing the color of one of the schools. I used clip art of the school logos and printed them out onto edible icing sheets. I applied those to a fondant backing and let the plaques dry firm overnight. The next day I applied them to the bands with melted white chocolate. (Be aware of summer heat of you use chocolate as glue!)
I used this JEM alphabet cutter set to make the names. I made the black hat by cutting out a grad hat silhouette shape from black fondant with some tylose added, and let that dry until firm. I put that into my food dehydrator to speed up the process and make it very hard. I glued sucker sticks to the back and inserted that into the top of the cake.
A few fondant curly ques and balls were the finishing festive touch.
Not an overly complicated design, and even with all the opposing colors, it still seemed to work. The grads loved it, so that is all that counts, right?
I hope all of your grad cakes are a huge success this year. Enjoy the summer and have fun with your family and friends when you can.
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Happy Caking Everyone!
Sharon
