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Graduation season is upon us!

Whether you’re graduating yourself or you’re celebrating another’s accomplishments, doing it with some cute graduation cookies makes the celebration that much more fun - and tasty.

So, here are 21 beautiful graduation cookie ideas to help make your celebration one to remember:

#1: Floral Grad Caps

My first idea for you is this elegant floral graduation cap design. This is a perfect cookie to recreate if you want a timeless, classic style - especially since it uses a black and white color combo.

#2: Gold Tassels

Simplicity is the name of the game with this next graduation cookie. But don’t let that fool you - these minimalist delicacies have an understated beauty about them along with a personalized touch.

#3: School Pride

School-specific cookies are a super fun theme you can use for your graduation cookies. Be sure to take inspiration from your school colors, logo, mascot, emblem, or other iconic school imagery.

#4: Engineering Degree Cookies

Here’s another really cool idea: make your graduation cookies career-themed! Above is a beautiful example for someone graduating with an engineering degree, especially electrical engineering.

#5: Minimal Balloons

I absolutely love simple designs like this one. This idea is perfect if you’re planning a graduation party with a neutral or blush color palette and an elegant yet minimalist aesthetic. Tip - gold food pens like these work great for recreating that metallic lettering look!

#6: Med School Cookies

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Here’s another great career-inspired graduation cookie for medical students! You can also take this idea and make it work for other medical careers like nursing, physician assistants, veterinarians, dentists, etc.

#7: Bright & Vibrant

How beautiful are the colors in this next graduation cookie idea?! If you want your cookies to have a bright, eye-catching design, definitely consider using food pens and a high-contrast color palette like red, white, and black for an extra festive touch.

#8: Pretty & Pink

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These cookies are literally the definition of being too beautiful to actually eat. They’re practically party decorations themselves! Speaking of, these are the perfect accompaniment to a pink, black, and white graduation party theme.

#9: Simple Diplomas

We’re keeping things classic and simple with this next graduation cookie idea. You can never go wrong with taking inspiration from iconic graduation imagery like diplomas, grad caps, and grad gowns.

#10: Festive Florals

For an ultra sophisticated and feminine aesthetic, this next idea is definitely one you’ll want to pay attention to. Between the beautiful script, detailed florals, and mauve/cream color palette, these cookies are epitome of elegance.

#11: Letter With Grad Cap

I love a personalized touch on graduation cookies to make a graduate feel extra special! To recreate this idea, get some letter-shaped cookie cutters and add some pretty details like flowers, sprinkles, polka dots, grad caps, etc.

#12: Grad Cap & Diploma Set

If you love the idea of using graduation imagery in your cookies but want to spice things up a bit, use a non-traditional grad color (basically anything other than black or white). This gorgeous vivid blue is a beautiful example of how you can do just that!

#13: Covered Oreos

Here’s a delicious one when it comes to graduation cookie ideas that’s easy for beginner bakers to recreate as well! You’ll want to grab some Oreos, dip them in melted chocolate, and add a festive little topper to complete the look.

#14: Soft Blue & Silver

I think this is one of my favorite cookie color combos in this list! If you want to bring a sense of understated elegance to your treats while still having a festive look, blue and silver is a gorgeous color palette to use.

#15: Soft Green

On a related note, another color palette that gives a similar vibe as the last idea is soft green paired with white and/or gold. This is the perfect light and airy palette to use for a springtime graduation party, too!

#16: Graduation Gown Cookies

I’m just obsessed with the stunning detail on this graduation gown cookie! This is definitely one of those cookies that’ll be just as fun to look at as it will to eat.

#17: School Pride (Again)

Here’s another beautiful piece of inspiration for school-specific cookies. This theme is ideal for graduates who love their school, have tons of school pride, or are student athletes!

#18: Nursing Cookies

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Those planning a nursing-themed graduation party will definitely want to take note of this next idea! These also work great as nurse appreciation cookies.

On that note, show some extra love to a nurse next time you see one. They do incredible work that absolutely deserves more recognition!

#19: Pharmaceutical Cookies

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For graduates pursuing a pharmacy career, you simply can’t go wrong with these pill-inspired graduation cookies. Those sprinkles combined with the pink, orange, and white color palette are just the cutest!

20: More Pretty & Pink

Pink lovers, this one’s for you! When decorating these, pick a few of your favorite shades of pink to use and pair it with some black and white accents if needed for a beautiful, feminine cookie theme.

#21: Diploma Cookies With Ribbon

To end off my list of graduation cookie ideas, I’m sharing one that’s a little different from the rest, but no less delicious.

You can easily DIY these by buying rolled cookie wafers and tying some ribbon around them that resembles a diploma ribbon - if you don’t want to bake them from scratch.

Outro & Closing Thoughts

Thank you for stopping by my post about graduation cookie ideas!

Best of luck with your cookie decorating, and congrats to all the new graduates out there.

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