Hi All -
Am very new to posting 
- and hope someone has a moment to share ideas - I am making a graduation cake and wanted to make a classic graduation cap - I will use the half ball pan to make the rounded cap part, but didn't know what to use (besides cardboard) for the flat part of the top of the cap. What is edible, and would hold up nicely (i.e., not get soggy and droopy) under a thin coat of buttercream and then fondant? Was thinking of using plain fondant to make the tassle, although I have seen some tassles made of royal icing too...
Thanks all! 
I did a graduation cap cake for my daughter a while back and what I did was just used a sturdy piece of card stock (bought at Michael's or Joann's) and placed it on top...for the tassel I made one out of embroidery string. However, I did just for just the family here at home not to sell. I am not sure what your situation is though.
Hope that helps some.
I just made a cap last night. I like everything to be edible so the top part of the hat was a well baked sugar cookie. It worked great and will taste good too! I used bc for the tassle, the wilton tip#233.. I call it the grass tip. I thinned the bc so that the tassle actually hung over the top. If your going to use fondant then I would make the tassle out of that too. Have fun, and good luck!!
How do you make your tassle using a garlic press?
I am making a cap out of gumpaste and would like to know first how to make it bright red. I put the pasye coloring into the gumpaste but it comes out pink. The tassle needs to be red and black. And my black is coming out grey. I ended up painting the grey black butI know I won't be able to do that with the tassle. I would really like some suggestions.
Hi,
I made the mortarboard part of the graduation cap out of chocolate candy melts. Mine wasn't very big though but I'm sure it would still work for a bigger square. Take a peek at the one in my profile.
I just spread a fairly thick layer of melted chocolate on top of a freezer paper covered square that was cut to the size I needed. Let it set up in the fridge for a bit, then carefully popped it off the cardboard and viola.
Hope that helps.
KimAZ
I was playing around yesterday with fondant and color. I first used brown to color it, then added black. Worked the brown in first, then the black. Came out black. Might want to try the same with red, start with pink first, then use red.
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