A GRADUATION CAKE FOR SUE
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I created this cake for my daughter Sue’s high school graduation.
There is no better way to come up with a special creation, than when one is needed for your own child.

Cakes are 3-tier 6,10,14-inch, plus a 10-inch round. Dolls (and props), stairway, banner and flowers - are all gumpaste.
My gum paste recipe used available from my Home Page/........in RECIPES -or- SPECIAL TECHNIQUES either one.


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DOLLS Dolls are formed of gum paste in the Wilton Gum paste people molds. (No longer available...but others ARE available...Then I dressed the dolls in gumpaste clothes. Fingernails are painted with real fingernail polish. Faces are painted mostly with real makeup. Dolls are sprayed with acrylic spray that makes them look like china. Hair is royal icing piped from tip 1, stand by strand.

BABY: All gum paste - The cradle and baby are placed on the 10-inch side cake.
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LITTLE GIRL: The little girl has braids and is carrying her dolly wrapped in a blanket.
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TEENAGER: The teenager has on her blue jeans and is carrying her roller skates with long straight hair
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GRADUATE: The graduate, looking very serene and grown up, is holding a gum paste diploma.
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FLOWERS: The roses and stephanotis are all formed from gumpaste with fine tulle and ribbon.
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RIBBON: "You've come a long way baby" is cut of red gum paste and laid in place before it dried. The wrting is royal icing.

AND I WON IT ALL! First I entered this cake in the Louisville, KY cake show (about 1975). In the professional division I won Best of category, Best of Division, Best of Show and Decorator’s choice awards. I was also awarded a Wilton medal. Mel Lopez was the show judge. Mel is the person pictured in Wilton’s encyclopedia while demonstrating pulled sugar. He demonstrated pulled sugar to cake show entrants for 3 whole hours.

Later I sent a picture to Wilton for a contest they were having before publishing the series book: "Celebrate 6." I won First place in the contest and $250.00.

TIP: Alternative for fast decorating...Dolls could also have been made by pouring flesh-colored coating chocolate into a candy mold. Then dress with either candy clay or gumpaste. (Candy Clay recipe available in your current Wilton Year Book - center part). Dolls made of chocolate and dressed in candy clay clothes last a very long time. Ones I made 15 years ago are as good as new. This is easier and faster, but don’t expect the amount of fine detail and perfection you can accomplish with gum paste. (Such as the long slender fingers my gumpaste dolls above have.


*All products available from Sugarcraft's Online Catalog for producing this cake. Molds have changed to 8x11 (like the candy molds)

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