Hi mamas - I am providing a cake (or something cake-like) for my son's daycare farewell/graduation next week. They normally don't do a big ceremony or anything but this year there are 6 kids going to Kindergarten so they're having a little farewell celebration in the evening next week. I offered to make a cake and need some ideas!
I'm thinking of making cake pops with little graduation caps on them and then maybe a small decorated cake with an inscription. Any ideas for cute decorations or what to write on the cake? I want to keep it lighthearted and celebratory, maybe with a school theme (ABC/123 decorations, or a message on a chalkboard or something). Have you seen any cute ideas that you could share? Thanks!
Thanks everyone! I did a Google image search and got some ideas as well. I think I'm going to do the Bakerella graduation cap cake pops (if I have the patience LOL) and then a chalkboard, maybe more green than black on that background. For the responder whose daughter bakes cupcakes (so fun!) if she starts with chocolate frosting as a base when making black frosting, she'll only need a little bit of black and it won't stain everyone's teeth and tongue (and fingernails) as much. Thanks for the ideas!
Thanks Gamma G. No such regulations here, I bake all the time for all of our schools and for this daycare class in particular because there are no children or teachers with food allergies.
turn a 9x13 into a chalkboard with ABC embellishments around the edges. Use white icing to pipe "KG here we come" on the top!
I would just avoid the black frosting that would comprise a chalkboard look. After people eat it they will all look horrid (teeth and lips). It takes a while for the dark coloring to fade and wear off (eating and drinking other stuff and toothbrushing). So I would avoid that for the overall cake idea.
Let me go search my daughters cupcakes books (shes got tons..its her thing...the teens do "cupcakparitieses" here at our house often...and let me tell you...teens and black food colored frosting...makes for some fun pictures, but a lesson learned for future events of my own! LOL). I will EDIT if I find something cute (anhopefullyly a web copied page version!)
http://www.landolakes.com/recipe/3144/graduation-cupcakes
Something like this? chocolatecklate bar piece, or maybe even a chocolate covered graham cracker (depends on the size of your cupcakes, etc)..and a Reece's PNB cup (again, they come in different sizes)...embellish with string licorice and an M & M perhaps...like this photo.....
These graduation caps are cute:
http://familyfun.go.com/schools-out/graduation-party-food...
Make a cupcake cake!
Just arrange the cupcakes into a "K" or something like that. You can get little cap cupcake picks for them.
I would have to agree with the cup cake idea! You could get those made a your local Sam's Club for like $11. I purchased one for my son's birthday party!
why dont you make a quarter sheet cake with a blank chalk board on the top and get the little candy numbers and letters and have the kids decorate it before the party starts.....
Please ask your child care center if they know if you can actually bake the cake at home or were they thinking you were going to buy one at the store.
Nearly every state has child care regulations prohibiting this now days. If the kitchen is not licensed by a state health department inspector, just like restaurants, they cannot cook food for public consumption. Schools don't even allow home baked goodies anymore either.
Seriously, would you like to eat a piece of cake made in a kitchen that might have rat feces laying on the counter? Roaches climbing on the pots and pans they just put the cake batter in? Or any number of other things. Since the homes are not licensed to cook and serve food you don't know what their home is like and their ideas of what clean and sanitary are. This is why the state child care reg's are changing across the board. Too many people just don't know what clean is.
I am sure your home is sanitary but if they let you then they have to let others and who knows what their homes are actually like.
I would hate to go to a lot of work and then show up with it and be told it can't be used due to a misunderstanding.
