Description
Celebrate achievements with this Elegant Graduation Cake with Fondant Cap Topper. This cake features delightful flavors and a stunning fondant design, making it an irresistible centerpiece for your graduation party.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 Yellow sheet cake
- 2 Chocolate sheet cake
- 1 Cotton candy cake
- 10 cups American buttercream frosting (Tinted yellow with gel food coloring)
- 4 cups Marshmallow fondant (2 cups of black and 2 cups of white)
- 1 batch Rice krispie treats (Can also use store-bought )
Instructions
- Bake 2 yellow sheet cakes (9×13 dimensions), 2 chocolate sheet cakes (9×13 dimensions) and 1 cotton candy dome cake (5 inch diameter). Note that leftover cotton candy batter can be used for cupcakes.
- Allow the cakes to cool completely.
- Prepare the yellow buttercream frosting while the cakes are baking and cooling.
- Making the cap cake: Place the dome cake on a cake board, frost smoothly with buttercream, and chill for 20 minutes. Roll out black fondant and place it over the cake, smoothing it out and cutting excess off.
- Create the cap top by cutting a square of cardboard, coloring edges with a black marker, and icing it before covering with black fondant. Cut excess fondant from the sides.
- For finishing touches on the cap, cut a small circle of fondant, brush corn syrup on cardboard edges, fold a ribbon and stick it there, then set the circle piece on top before adhering it to the dome with melted chocolate or royal icing.
- To create the edible diploma, roll rice krispie treats into a log shape, cover with buttercream, then wrap in white fondant before trimming.
- Use cookie cutters to make 2 white fondant circles for the ends of the log, attaching them with buttercream and wrapping a red ribbon around the diploma.
- To assemble the cake, place 2 chocolate cakes side by side on a board, ice them, then stack the yellow cakes on top, icing the whole structure smoothly.
- Fill a piping bag with yellow icing and pipe roses along the edges and top of the cake.
- Determine where the diploma and cap will go on the cake and insert supports before placing the prepared decorations on top.
- To finish, cut out letters for 'Congratulations Class of 2024' and stick them on the board with icing.
Notes
Feel free to use store-bought Rice Krispie treats for convenience.
Make sure to chill the buttercream cake before applying fondant for a sleek finish.
Customize the colors of the fondant to match the graduation theme.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 210mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 43g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 50mg