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Updated on December 2, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

90s Cake Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

The spirit of the 90's is alive! The early 90's that is. I made this 90's-style cake for my 20-year high school reunion. OMG I feel so old. The early 90's was all about grunge rock, disc-mans, MTV, FRIENDS and more.

Learn how to make this fun 90's themed cake with painted brick texture, hand-made disc-man with isomalt headphones and isomalt CD. All the images are also included if you want to use them for your design but I also show you how to crop and print your own edible images.

1:04:19 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to use time-saving techniques like edible images to make clean, quick designs
  • Learn how to create an edible CD and edible CD player
  • How to create several fun textures like sidewalk, bricks, and denim jeans

1990's Cake tutorial, with step-by-step instructions on how to make this grunge-inspired cake, only on sugargeekshow.com

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Paneling the 8" cake in fondant 0:45
  2. Creating the brick texture 6:18
  3. Painting the bricks 8:02
  4. Covering the 6" cake in fondant 11:53
  5. Using Photoshop 15:51
  6. Preparing edible images 24:53
  7. Preparing the headphones 29:35
  8. Baking the board 30:13
  9. Creating the CD topper 32:42
  10. Creating the headphones 34:58
  11. Creating CD player details 37:24
  12. Detailing the headphones 39:01
  13. Detailing the CD topper 43:34
  14. Finishing the stone texture 44:50
  15. Stacking the cakes 46:50
  16. Making the jean pocket 49:35
  17. Adding the jean pocket 56:03
  18. Making overall straps 56:50
  19. Making overall buckles 59:58
  20. Finishing the CD topper 1:01:19
  21. Finishing the border 1:01:56
  22. Attaching the edible images 1:02:45

Downloads

Materials List

Edible Image Reference 01

Edible Image Reference 02

Edible Image Reference 03

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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.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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