Here, you’ll find 21 stunning graduation cake ideas for girls that are perfect for an unforgettable high school or college graduation party, with tips to DIY them.
How to find a graduation cake idea for women suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low-Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High-Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect for sharpening and maintaining your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall into the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about basic techniques, such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect graduation cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Graduation Cake Ideas For Girls For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 2 easy graduation cake-decorating ideas dor girls that are perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Graduation Cakes For Girls
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Graduation cake decorations and cake toppers.
- Edible pearls.
How can you recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it is only the first coat. Chill the cake for 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until the frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Use a knife warmed with water if you want sharp edges on your cake.
- Finally, add your graduation cake toppers, your cake decorations, and your edible pearls.
What you’ve learned :
As a cake decorator, the very first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake properly.
Graduation Cake Ideas For Girls For Intermediate Bakers.
Here, you’ll find 14 high school and college graduation cake ideas for girls that are perfect for intermediate bakers.
Graduation Pearl Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Cake toppers are an easy way to elevate a cake design. So knowing how to make your own is definitely something you want to learn.
A little guidance
Check out this tutorial to learn how to create your own graduation cake toppers.
Blue Graduation Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A little guidance
Adding a buttercream shell border is a rather simple way to elevate any cake design. Go for an open star piping tip like the 6B by Wilton to get similar results. Also, to get this kind of vibrant buttercream, check out this tutorial.
Ombré Graduation Cake For Girls
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate).
You can easily personalize this cake design with your favorite combo of colors.
A little guidance
To create this beautiful ombré layered buttercream effect, frost your cake as usual and let it set. Smooth a thin layer of your second-lightest colored buttercream on the bottom two-thirds of the cake and let it set in the fridge. Repeat the process for the darkest layer of frosting on the remaining bottom third of the cake.
Elegant Graduation Cakes For Women
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A little guidance
Learn how to properly use silicon fondant mold to open yourself to a whole new world of cake decorations. You can use DIY edible golden paint to paint your fondant or create golden splashes on your cake.
Graduation Sheet Cakes For Girls
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Sheet cakes are amazing as they’re easy to serve while still looking amazing.
A little guidance
Sheet cakes are not too difficult to decorate if you have a solid basic buttercream piping technique. Check out this basic buttercream piping tutorial if you need to refresh your game.
Graduation Vintage Cakes For Girls
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a trendy graduation cake design, a vintage cake is definitely an Insta-worthy cake design.
A little guidance
To create your own graduation vintage cake, you can follow this vintage cake piping tutorial. If you want to make a vintage heart cake, you don’t need heart cake tins. You can easily DIY them.
Graduation Bento Cakes For Girls
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Bento cakes are the perfect option for a small graduation celebration with 1 to 3 people.
A little guidance
To recreate these kinds of designs, you’ll need to do a buttercream transfer. Draw your buttercream decoration on a sheet of parchment paper following a guide that you put underneath it. Then, once it has set in the fridge, simply stick it on your cake. Finally, outline the drawing and add the details. Here’s a video tutorial of a buttercream transfer to make the process easier.
Floral Graduation Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
A little guidance
To recreate this cake design, you’ll need to learn how to make this kind of brushed flowers.
Graduation Cake Ideas For Girls For Advanced Bakers
These 5 graduation cake ideas for girls will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Pink Graduation Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re planning a big graduation party, a tiered cake is the perfect option for you.
3D Graduation Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
You can easily personalize this graduation cake design to any major.
Library Graduation Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, here’s a perfect example of how you could turn any cake design into a tiered cake.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas, check out my other cake ideas for girls or my cake ideas for teens.
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