Let's Celebrate! How to Host a Xavier Graduation Party.

Let's Celebrate! How to Host a Xavier Graduation Party

By Steph Fiorelli

After years of academic work, commencement is right around the corner, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a graduation party for your favorite Musketeer! Here are a few food and decoration ideas to throw a party that’ll make your grad feel proud of everything they’ve accomplished.

Food

A person grabs a cupcake from the table. Xavier cookies and Blue Blob cupcakes re also on the table.

Caf Favorites

Xavier Catering has a Commencement Bakery where you can order delicious treats your student enjoyed at the caf! Get affordable and adorable cake pops, cupcakes, sheet cakes and the iconic caf cookie.

Blue Blob Cupcakes

If you prefer the DIY route, you can add Blue Blob cupcakes to your party table. You'll need:

12 cupcakes in your graduate’s favorite flavor
1 to 1 ½ cups blue buttercream icing
Edible blue spray
1/3 cup vanilla icing
½ cup chocolate icing
Spoon

Ice the cupcakes. Use a spoon to cover cupcake with blue icing. Then, lightly pat the bottom of the spoon against the icing to make raised fur.
Spray the cupcakes. It can be hard to make frosting as dark as the fur of the Blob, but using edible blue spray paint on top of a lighter blue will give you a closer match.
Add eyes and nose. Pipe vanilla frosting circles for the eye, then add a third, slightly larger circle for the nose.
Add pupils and smile! Use chocolate icing to add pupils to the eye circles, then pipe a large, happy smile!

XU Cookies

Take your favorite sugar cookie recipe and use letter cookie cutters to spell out XU, your graduate’s name, or a special message!

Drinks

Blue sparkling lemonade in champagne glasses

Looking for a themed drink? Add a drop or two of blue food coloring to your favorite drink, make iced tea out of butterfly pea flowers (just be careful with citrus and other acids, since they turn the tea from dark blue to a bright pink) or try this festive mocktail!

Victory Parkway Sparkler

Mix chilled blue lemonade or fruit punch with sparkling water to taste. Serve in champagne glasses.

Since store-bought lemonades can be very sweet, a 1:1 ratio of lemonade to sparkling water is a good starting point to keep a bright color, have bubbles, and be enjoyable to all age groups!