Celebrate your graduate's latest achievements with these standout graduation cakes and cupcakes.

Up the festivity quotient by serving these brownies in clear drinking glasses and topping them with gum-paste numbers that spell out the year.

Honor your grad with diploma-shaped tuile cookies atop a rich chocolate sheet cake.

Set up a sweet arrangement on the dessert table with this flower-inspired almond tart topped with rings of fresh apricots.

Topped with blackberries, blueberries, currants, strawberries, and apricot jam, these individual fruit desserts can easily be customized for your party guests.

In honor of your graduate, layer a pound cake with lemon mousse, roasted stone fruit, and lemon zest.

This golden pie filled with blueberries can be made and frozen up to two months before your graduation celebration.

Congratulate your scholar with an impressive strawberry cake frosted with vanilla ice cream.

For a handheld treat that takes the cake, try these cute confections at your party -- they combine the flavor of classic banana bread with a creamy spiced frosting.

Tangy buttermilk custard pairs beautifully with the sweet, plump blueberries that top this seasonal tart.

Celebrate your graduate with a meringue-frosted raspberry cake that you can make up to a day before the gathering.

Capped with "kisses" of frosting and dusted with cinnamon-sugar, these cupcakes are inspired by the cookie of the same name.

This anything-but-ordinary cheesecake is made special by the addition of oven-roasted strawberries.

Layers of thinly sliced Meyer lemons lend a mellow complexity to this otherwise classic coffee cake that the whole party will enjoy.

This heavenly angel food cake topped with candied citrus slices will show your grad how proud you are.

The only treat better than a chocolate chip cupcake is a chocolate chip cupcake topped with chocolate chip frosting.

Send good wishes to your graduate with a dessert that combines cake, cream, and berries -- and is more than the sum of its parts. The buttery cake soaks up the strawberry juices, while the whipped cream adds an airy richness.

This dense cake offers graduation party guests an intense chocolate experience, complete with fudgy frosting.

Hide a sweet surprise in these chocolate-frosted cupcakes: raspberry jam.

This cherry cheesecake boasts a velvety texture and less fat than the original.

This celebratory ice cream cake filled with sugar wafers, semisweet chocolate, and roasted peanuts deserves an A.

Topped with seven-minute frosting, this rich cocoa cake is a must-have graduation party treat.

Complete your elegant graduation gathering with these cupcakes topped with piped shells and pearls made out of Swiss meringue buttercream.