Graduation Tower Cake

Where does time get to??? This year, my niece graduated from high school and I made this cake to help her celebrate the occasion. It is a split design because I wanted to include her boyfriend of which graduated from the same school. One side is done in blue and yellow (school colors) stripes while the other side is more feminine with rainbow sugar roses. If I had the rainbow sugar roses to do again I would do them in solid white, let them harden and airbrush them in multiple colors. I think that this would have made them look more realistic.

The wasp mascot is made from white modeling chocolate of which I hand sculpted and painted with an oil based food coloring...messy, messy stuff that doesn't dry but the colors were very vibrant.There were a lot of comments that it looked mean but that's actually what the facial expression looks like.

The cake stand is made from 1/2" pvc of which is actually straight up and down. I knew that I was going to use a wedge of fondant to get the graduation cap cake to tilt but the top square tier was a bit more difficult to figure out. I ended up using a 1/4" mdf fondant covered board of which I screwed a threaded pvc adapter into at an angle. This allowed me to create stability for a tier that hangs in mid air.

The cake is marble of which was torted and layered with alternating vanilla and chocolate Swiss buttercream, per the request of my niece. Once I layered the cakes I took it a step further and iced the top half of the tiers with chocolate Swiss buttercream and the bottom half in vanilla Swiss buttercream.

All in all the cake turned out beautifully and she was very happy with it. I gotta say that I love it when I get creative license to design a cake.