Description
This Elegant Graduation Cake with Fondant Cap Topper is a delightful centerpiece for your celebration, featuring a rich blend of flavors with buttercream frosting and charming decorative elements that make it special.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 Yellow sheet cakes
- 2 Chocolate sheet cakes
- 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). Save any leftover cotton candy cake batter for cupcakes.
- Allow all cakes to cool completely.
- Prepare the yellow buttercream frosting while the cakes are baking and cooling.
- Create the cap cake first by placing the dome cake on a cake board. Smoothly frost it with buttercream and chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Roll out black fondant and apply it to the chilled dome cake, smoothing it out and trimming excess.
- Make the cap's top by cutting a square piece of cardboard, coloring the edges with a black edible marker, and layering it with black fondant.
- Use corn syrup to attach a ribbon folded in half to a small fondant circle, place it on top of the square cardboard, and secure it to the dome cake with melted chocolate or royal icing.
- For the edible diploma, shape rice krispie treats into a cylinder, apply buttercream, and wrap in white fondant.
- Attach two fondant circles on the diploma with buttercream and wrap a red ribbon around it.
- Assemble the cakes by placing the chocolate sheets side by side on a large cake board, frosting them, and stacking yellow cakes on top.
- Pipe roses along the sides and top of the cake with yellow icing.
- Decide the placement for the diploma and cap, inserting supports, before decorating the cake board with 'Congratulations Class of 2024' letters.
Notes
Using store-bought rice krispie treats saves preparation time.
Ensure all cakes are thoroughly cooled before icing to prevent melting.
Experiment with colors and decorations to personalize your cake.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 30g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 52g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg