Hurrah! Your friend has graduated and it’s time to get her some exquisite graduation favors! Well, you wanna pat her on the back for years of putting her nose to the grindstone and passing out with flying colors. Now, its celebration time, folks! And time to make some memories that would last forever…

Choosing Graduation Favors
Choosing favors shouldn’t be a problem when you already know about your friend’s likes and dislikes. You just need to give him or her something that would melt his or her heart. And if the grad’s a complete stranger, go along with the party theme. It can be formal, semi-formal, or casual. You can also choose items that possess a universal charm. You can never go wrong with frames, chocolates, cookies, coffee mugs, key chains, and other such stuff.

Personalized Graduation Favors
Do you know what the most exciting part of a graduation party is? Creating personalized graduation party favors. Yeah! Because when the party is over and all the goodies have been relished by the guests, it’s only the personalized items that make one cherish the memories of the occasion. In fact, what’s a graduation party without personalized favors?

One of the best things you can give to your proud friend is a check for an amount that equals her graduation year! Cool! Wanna go an extra mile? Get her a cell phone with a calling card or service plan so that both of you can stay in touch. Or how about gifting her coffee mug or flannel blanket with her name engraved on it? Fabulous!

One thing that she’s gonna appreciate is a subscription to her fave magazine. Nothing can be more personalized than this! When you choose a personalized item, you want her to remember you forever, don’t you? So, why don’t you give her a camera with a film and battery, plus a couple of photographs of you two together? Incredible! You can also gift a nice quilt made from scanned photographs to her. You can use your graduation jerseys and add one or two of your fave graduation year clothes. This will be a sign of remembrance of those years of fun. A scrapbook made of pictures is a great gift too! Choose pictures from your graduation years. And if you’ve pictures of your first day in college, great!

Here’s one thing that suits a graduation party fine – an exquisite set of pens and scrap book. Add a note that says “For writing a bright future!” Do you know inscribing messages on the graduation favors or adding notes makes your gift special? And you need not choose flamboyant words for writing a message. Just a simple “remember me” or “happy to graduate” or a humble “congratulations” on a coffee mug would touch the heart!

Guess what? One of the best graduation gifts that you can give to your friend is by being present on her graduation party before time and helping her in organizing the event! You get lots of time to chat and recall the memories of graduation years. This is once-in-a-lifetime experience!

It’s easy to choose graduation favors. Just let your heart do the talking!

You’ve graduated with flying colors and now there’s a graduation chocolate party for you. Life can certainly be a bed of roses at times! Name chocolates and your mouth just doesn’t stop watering. Those soft dark brown cocoa truffles melting in your mouth, ooh!

Your folks have decided to host a graduation chocolate theme party. Hey, why don’t you tell them exactly which kind of chocolates you want and how many? This way, you can indulge in this ‘dark sin’ the whole evening!

Types Of Chocolate Favors
One of the most eye-catching favors is the graduation cap chocolate. Psst…make sure your friends bring this favor to you! You can have chocolate baskets with all sorts of chocolates filled in it. There are choco bars, cookies, truffles, and lots more to relish. You can also get chocolate bars in the shape of grad girl or boy.

There is an enormous chocolate collection to sink your teeth into. Apart from your regular chocolate milk and martinis, there’s the hot chocolate with varied toppings, marshmallows dipped in chocolate, whipped cream, chocolate covered spoons, Irish crème, cinnamon, amaretto, frangelico, and others. Then, there are chocolate peanut butter balls, chocolate cream pie, chocolate crème brulee, chocolate health bar pie, chocolate chip cookies, and more. (I know you’re gonna relish one large chocolate bar after reading this!)
Ideas For A Chocolate Party

One interesting thing that you can have in your graduation party is edible decorations! Keep little choco delights sprawled at every nook or corner. Dip edible items in chocolate and place them as is or arrange them around a chocolate fountain. How about this? Get plain jars and fill them with all kinds of chocolates.

Another way to make your graduation chocolate party more fun is creating a map and then, getting different kinds of chocolates from across the world. Thereafter, you need to place the chocolates on the region where they belong. This requires a little study. But, it’s a grad’s party after all!

You can get your guests decorative bags or boxes so that they can collect the chocolates from different regions of the map and take them home. (Some may prefer to gobble them there and then!)

Chocolate Fountain

Imagine chocolate flowing continuously over a milky tower, trickling down your tongue – ummm! This is no fairy tale, but a chocolate fountain. If you’re an avid chocolate lover, your graduation chocolate party must have this. It never fails to impress the guests, plus never fails to tickle your tastebuds!

The fountain doesn’t require a pump. You just assemble the thing, fill the fountain base with melted chocolate, switch on the motor, and voila – it’s chocolate heaven flowing at your party!

The fountain body is made of stainless steel and plastic that’s resistant to heat. You can use the chocolate fountain with white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, butterscotch, and even cheese.

There’s no end to chocolate ideas. Use your imagination and you can almost float on chocolate! And why not – with years of studying hard and raking your brains, you well deserve a treat!

It’s important to have the best graduation candy wrappers for a candy-themed graduation party. This is because these wrappers make fabulous party favors for any kind of graduation, be it kindergarten, high school, or college. Make your graduation candy wrappers more cherishable by picking school logos and school colors, along with graduation pictures. They personalize your wrappers and make the best gift for such an occasion.

Ways To Customize Candy Wrappers
There are as many ways to customize as the ways your imagination goes. You can paste a photo of the grad on the wrapper. There can be no better way than this to customize graduation candy wrappers. If a photo is not available, be a little naughty and draw a cartoon of the grad. You can have wrappers with messages on them, which can be simple, wacky, funny, witty, whatever.

You can design wrappers with borders on them. Choose colors of borders that match the personality of the grad. Say, your friend is short tempered; choose red! She’s romantic, choose pink. She’s calm; choose blue. You can even select colors according to the grad’s choice. Besides, there’s no limit to the selection of font type and color. It’s fun designing wrappers, really!

Miniature Candy Wrappers
Miniature graduation candy wrappers make cute graduation favors. In fact, the smaller they are, the more special they look! You can get a candy wrapper personalized online. Just provide the first name of grad, his or her year of graduation, and the message that you wish to be written on the wrapper. Short messages such as “Good Luck”, “Best Wishes”, “You Did It”, or a simple “congratulations” make your favor look real nice.

You can even have a graphic of graduation cap on the wrapper. This, in a way, symbolizes the favor as that of graduation party.

There is a huge variety of graduation candy wrappers. The more you imagine, the more ideas you would be able to churn out. Wrap your candy delights with gorgeous glossy wrappers and watch your grad’s face light up with amazement.

Looking for some yummy graduation candy for your graduation party? First of all, I’d like to inform you that you’re gonna have double fun with candy being the theme of your party. When you think of candy, what comes to your mind? Just those blocks of sweet, chewy things. Oh, guys, there’s more to that! Just unleash your imagination and wander in candyland!

Graduation Candy Ideas
Ever thought of candy-themed fabric? It’s the best thing you can have for a candy-themed party. When you’ve chosen such a yummy theme, you ought to create a ‘delicious’ environment, right? One thing that can become the center of attraction is a pair of candy bouquets. Oh, how lovely they look, sitting pretty on the table, greeting everyone with their sweetness!

Even a candy basket or box makes for a tempting favor. You can fill the basket or box with all sorts of candies that you ate during your school years. There are different types of candies available to make your basket interesting. There are graduation candy bars, roll candies, gum candies, buttermints, megaphone cheer candies, and much more. You can have fun candies like Candy Teef, Tooth Ache Candy, Ear Wax Candy, Fear Factor Candy, jellybeans, dog food candy, and others. Also, do not forget custom candy.

And if you wish to replace baskets with something more intriguing, there are graduation bear candy bags. Ooh! They’re so cute!

In-Edible Candies!
Here’s something you can drool at, but not eat! There’s a huge collection of candy-theme stuff that goes well with graduation candy party. The candy T-shirts with logos are cool things to have in such a party. How about asking everyone to wear one such T-shirt at the party? And the graduate will be made to sit on a graduation chair with a graduation crown waiting to adorn his or her head.

This is gonna be great fun. You can set a time for the crowning. When the clock strikes, everyone cheers and the grad is crowned at one of the most thrilling moments of his or her life.

If you wanna be naughty, go for weird candy party themes. You can have Lunch Meat Bubble Gum, ABC Gum, Sardine Candy, Gummi Bacon, Sour Flush Candy, and much more. There are even candy pillows available! Then there are messenger bags with candy themes. There’s no end to candy flavors, candy stuff, and candy sweetness. It spreads to every nook and corner and transforms everything it comes in contact with into candy. Yes, just like Midas touch, there’s the Candy touch! You can even play a candy game in the party with everything turning into candy when the candyman touches. And who’s the candy man? That’s for you to decide!

I simply love to suck on graduation candy. It’s got the mark of one of the big achievements of life. So, it’s extra sweet and lasts longer!

Just like the main graduation cake, the cookies can be hand decorated and can come in all shapes and sizes. Just like the cake the cookies can be hand decorated with a special message in a color of choice. The school name can go on here and maybe even the school color.

You can buy great themed graduation cookies which come specially packaged up in a gift basket but if you really want to make it personal you can go that extra mile and make your own. Making cookies is easier than you think and here are lots of great cookie recipes around the internet that you can find. One of the key things you will need is a cookie cutter.

Graduation Cookie Cutter

A cookie cutter is a kitchen utensil which is used specifically to cut sheets of cookie dough into desired shapes before your bake them. You can pick up graduation cookie cutters which let you make your cookies in fun shapes like

graduation cap cookies

graduation girl cookies

graduation boy cookies

graduation year shapes cookies

diploma shape cookies

graduation scroll shape cookies

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
1) Find someone local who will print an image onto edible paper for you – you need a special printer for this so no point trying to find the paper yourself. 2) Cover the cake in frosting with chocolate laced through it – will give it an aged look. 3) Now place the picture in the middle of the cake and pipe the message “Wanted” at the top.

Personalizing the cake with the name of the person, the graduation date and the name of the school, college or university will add a great personal touch to create a great graduation cake but you need not stop there. Think about the person graduating and consider the following – the subject studied their personality & interests and so on. You will soon come up with unique ideas on how to approach your Graduation cake decorations.

The mortar board and tassel are the classic graduation cake toppings, but you dont need to stick with tradition. Fun patterns, school colours, polka dots and stars may meet other peoples tastes. For a child’s graduation celebration a superhero design or cars and trains mey be a better option. The choices for your cake design are as wide as your imagination. . If the graduate has career plans, maybe you could decorate the cake to reflect this choice. A Dollar sign for an accountant or a test tube for a graduate perusing a science career. A short quotation also provides an added touch of class. What about some Latin? Or a school motto?

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Themed Graduation cake decorations are always a good idea. For example for a maths graduation you could decorate the cake in the cake in the school colors displayed with math symbols, everything from plus and minus signs to pi and square root signs. The same could be applied with Science – test tubes and chemical elements etc. I would check the Wilton cake decorating books. Also, go to your library and see what kind of cake decorating books that they have. Thirdly, I would consult with a bakery and see if they have any suggestions.

When working on a cake yourself bear in mind that to properly decorated a cake, you can buy Moulds in various different shapes and sizes. Cars, trains, cartoon characters, the list goes on. Thick cream can be put into these moulds to get different kinds of shapes for presentation purposes. Edible articles such as chocolates – grated or made into figures, candies, butter cream, fruit pieces like strawberries, cherries etc

You can also use the season as your inspiration. There are various frostings and icings which can be used for cake decorations. Victorian style, Royal icing, Fondant, Ganache and so on

Choosing your graduation cake theme – The theme is a combination of the colors and decorations of the cake. This can reflect the school (college) or maybe a chosen career path, like a tooth themed decorated cake for a dentist.

Personalization of the graduation cake – What to add to make it personal to the person. Wording, pictures, favourite sports teams etc

Size and shape – graduation cakes can come in different shapes & sizes. Be as creative as possible but maybe the most important factor is making sure the graduation cake is big enough and there is plenty to go around. Running out of cake is bad news.