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Want a graduation cake that will make your senior's reception memorable?

Try a tip from award-winning cake artist and owner of Sugar Creations Rebecca Sutterby, who dropped by the set of Good Morning Kansas today.

Keeping with the theme of the day, she suggests a graduation cap design.

You'll need some confectioner's chocolate, preferably white. You may want to special order the chocolate online or through a local specialty store, but you can use almond bark from the grocery store.

Melt white chocolate and color it, if appropriate, with candy coloring, which is oil based. Or, you could use a powder food coloring.

"You don't want to use regular food coloring because it will seize your chocolate up, turn it into nice clumps of goo," Sutterby said.

For the top square of the cap, spoon in melted chocolate into a 5" square cake pan. She averages four large spoonfuls to cover the bottom. To get all the air bubbles out and spread the melted chocolate out evenly, drop the pan (from a short distance) on the counter.

Place in freezer for a few minutes. The chocolate will shrink. Trim up the edges with a steak knife to make a perfect square.

For the bottom part of the cap, Sutterby uses a miniature ball pan or a large muffin pan.

"You put your chocolate in. And, I made it hollow, so I just smoothed it up around the edges of the pan, and did a couple layers," she said.

Use the back of a spoon to help hollow out the bottom.

Then, you freeze that.

To affix the top to the bottom, apply melted chocolate on the top of the bottom portion of the cap and allow to dry upside down.

To create the button on top of the cap, just add a quarter-sized drop of chocolate and press it down gently.

You may need a clay gun or other frosting applicator that makes strings. Sutterby uses fondant for the strings on her edible caps.

Fold the strings in half, and trim the bottom edges with a scissors.