How to Decorate a Graduation Cake with these easy ingredients

A rectangular cake pan is the most versatale pan

Graduation is coming up quick and with money tight, you can decorate a great cake with very little effort ... or talent!

Things You'll Need

• Sheet cake
• white butter cream frosting
• chocolate covered graham crackers
• chocolate chips
• marshmallows

Instructions

1. For this graduation cake, bake a sheet cake to serve the number of people you expecting. See information on pan sizes and number of servings. It is worth the money to invest in a large 50 piece rectangle pan it you have more graduations, weddings or showers coming up. It is the most versatile and used size cake pan. It will take two cake mixes to fill and two cakes can be layered to serve 100 people. Another plus to decorating your own cake is getting to pick any flavor of cake you want.

2. 

   Make a lot of butter cream icing. It should be fairly thin to cover the cake easily.

3. 

   Take two large marshmallows and set them side by side on the cake. They will be eyes. With a little icing for glue stick the chocolate chips near the bottom of the marshmallows. It's fun to play with them and make different expressions.

4. 

   The chocolate covered graham cracker is the graduation mortar board. Place it on the marshmallow eyes. Pipe a thread of icing from the center and drip down one side like a tassel.

5. 

   With writing icing that can be purchased at an grocery store in a variety of school colors write ... Congratulations (name of graduate). "You're Looking Good!"

Tips & Warnings

• You can use any colors of icing you would like to emphasize the graduates school colors.

• Look through the cake decorating section of your store for edible glitter or other embellishments.

• A beginners cake decorating kit will give you icing tips and bags that can be reused for years.