Medical School Graduation Cake & Cupcakes

My cousin graduates from medical school tomorrow and my lovely aunt asked if I would make a cake for the party at the park with all of the family after graduation ceremonies.

The party will also acknowledge my high school cousin's graduation next weekend and a friend of the family graduation with a degree in Construction Management. I had no idea how I'd wrap all three graduations together, while keeping the doctor at the forefront. A cake with a stethoscope, an electric guitar, and a hammer?

I gave up on the idea of going over the top and decided I'd scale down the cake, add cupcakes and incorporate school colors for the graduation caps to cover blue/white school colors of my high school cousin and green/yellow for the CSU grad. For the hats...

Squash a square cookie cutter. Roll the fondant and cut out the diamond shapes.

Use two petals of the outer edge of a flower cookie cutter for the base of the graduation hat. Then, cut as shown below:

Brush the bottom underside corner of the diamond with a little water and press to the base of the hat. Voila! Graduation hat! You can pipe the tassel with frosting. Add a dot in the center and then drag a line over the brim of the hat and add a few small lines for the tassel.

My triple layer 9" cake idea became an easier double layer 6" cake- still Red Velvet (the grad's favorite).

It was late and I didn't photo document the process of making the stethoscope. It is pretty self-explanatory...roll the fondant and/or gumpaste like a snake and use two sizes of small round cutters for the chestpiece.