Simple Decorating Ideas For a Pirate Cake 1)Cover with chocolate frosting – should probably be black but dark chocolate will look much more appetizing. 2)Using greaseproof paper, cut out a template for a skull and cross bone. 3) Next lay the paper on top of the cake and use a piping bag with a biggish nozzle to pipe little blobs of white frosting to cover the template.  



Simple Decorating Ideas For Clown Graduation Cake 1) Create a zigzag design round the edge of the cake using small pieces of red liquorice strings or red piped frosting. Colored candy coated sweets look nice placed between the zigzags. 2) Make circles for the eyes out of chocolate drops and add any colored sweet for the eyeris with a chocolate drop on top for the pupil. 3) Add a cherry for the nose. 4) Create the outline of a mouth with the red liquorice string or red piped frosting and fill in with hundreds and thousands.

Simple Decorating Idea for Oriental Cake 1)Cover with chocolate frosting – should probably be red, black and gold but dark chocolate will look much more appetizing. 2)Using greaseproof paper, cut out a template for a fan, parassol, or oriental characters. 3) Next lay the paper on top of the cake and use a piping bag with a biggish nozzle to pipe little blobs of white, red, black or gold frosting to cover the template.

Casino Decorating Idea 1) Cover the entire cake in white frosting. 2) Use alternate milk and white chocolate coins to decorate around the edge of the cake. 3) Get some ready-to-use fondant frosting and mould it into 2 small cubes to make dice and just pipe some black frosting dots onto the side. 4) After some practice you could also attempt to write a message on the cake. Something short like “Congrads (name of graduate)”.

Graduation Cake Photo Decorating Idea A graduation cake with their photo on it would be fantastic and what's more it is completely edible! I am afraid you cannot do this yourself though as you need a special printer AND the edible paper AND the edible ink cartridges. Far better to just ask at your local supermarket or cake shop.

Mardi Gras Mask Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Instead of using 2 circular cake tins, try using oval ones instead. 2) Once the cakes are cooked and cooled, slightly cut the edge off both shapes and place them together so that they resemble an eye mask. 3) You will also need to cut out holes for the eyes. 4) Next, cover them completely with frosting – yellow would be good to symbolize gold. 5) Cover the mask in sweets of your choice. 6) The stick attached to the mask could be made of a long strand of thick black liquorice.

Fifties Record Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Cover the sides of the cake with white frosting. 2) Add some black food coloring to the frosting and spread it smoothly onto the top of the cake. 3) Use a fork to trace circular marks - the idea is to make it look like a vinyl record. Like a record, make the label using a different colored frosting. Pipe a message on the top of the label – something like “Congrads (name of graduate).

Hollywood Star Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Completely cover the cake in frosting 2) Pipe the outline of a star shape on the top of your circular cake in a contrasting color. 3) Again, in a contrasting color pipe the message “(name of the graduate) Reach for the Stars.

Safari Lion Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Cover the entire cake in lemon colored frosting. 2) Pipe the lion features using black frosting very similar to the Wiltons cake below. 3) Using orange frosting and a wider nozzle on your piping bag pipe blobs of orange around the edge of the cake to make the mane.

Luau Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Completely cover the cake in white frosting. 2) Next cut a grass skirt drastically leaving only the waistband and a couple of inches of skirt. 3) Attach the waistband around the side of the cake. 4) Now pipe a message on the top – something like – “Congrads (name of graduate)”. 5) Stick some colorful cocktail umbrellas into the cake to add some vibrancy.

Sea Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Make the sponge cake using the ingredients/directions as described above. 2) Now cover the entire cake with yellow frosting or you could make it multi-colored like a tropical fish. 3) The fish body will be the circle when you are looking down on the cake from above. Add an eye using white and black frosting and then add fins using triangular wafers.

Superhero Graduation Cake Decorating Idea 1) Cover the cake in white frosting 2) Add yellow and red food coloring (individually) to the frosting and attempt to make the “S” for the superman symbol – see the clipart image displayed further up the page.

Wild West Graduation Cake Decorating Idea