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3D Cookie Factory Cookie Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Ana Ferreira of Anna Sugar Art Boutique joins us for this amazing 3D gingerbread cookie tutorial. Ana breaks down how to cut your gingerbread into the cookie factory shapes as well as make this elaborate design and offers tips and tricks to add wow factor to your cookie piece.

1:30:05 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a 3D standing gingerbread cookie factory design
  • Learn how to dilute your royal icing to a flooding consistency for decorating
  • How Ana adds dimension and shading to her cookie pieces

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Cutting the templates 1:12
  2. Cutting the cookies 2:06
  3. Baking the cookies 5:38
  4. Tracing the template 8:05
  5. Flooding consistency 13:45
  6. Preparing the piping bag 20:39
  7. 1st layer of Flooding 23:22
  8. Flooding on acetate 28:17
  9. Detail work 29:51
  10. Adding the green dusts 50:33
  11. Adding the red dusts 53:24
  12. Adding the orange & brown dusts 56:21
  13. Writing words 1:02:04
  14. Red & green royal icing 1:02:37
  15. Added piping details 1:08:45
  16. Attaching the cookies 1:20:55
  17. Adding supports 1:23:20
  18. Final snow and details 1:24:08

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.