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Spongebob Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Jessa Coline of Abstract Edible Arts is back once again this time to teach us how to create a Spongebob Squarepants cake. This isn't your average Spongebob cake, complete with Krabby Patty, cook hat and spatula, and all sorts of fun details and additions that make this Spongebob stand out, literally!

1:14:13 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to create a Spongebob Squarepants Cake
  • How to create a simple gravity-defying structure (perfect for getting your feet wet with structured cakes)
  • Learn how to add fun details and accessories to bring Spongebob to life

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Using reference material 0:11
  2. Scaling up reference 2:12
  3. Transferring to posterboard 4:12
  4. Building the structure 7:07
  5. Adding the cake 14:24
  6. Adding support for arms 17:07
  7. Defining top of cake 19:32
  8. Ganache crumbcoat 20:25
  9. Carving the body 21:19
  10. Adding body details 22:15
  11. Covering in fondant 25:48
  12. Adding holes to Spongebob 29:17
  13. Airbrushing base coat 30:52
  14. Adding shirt & pants 32:41
  15. Adding facial details 37:15
  16. Adding clothing details 38:41
  17. Steaming the cake 41:09
  18. Airbrushing pants 42:08
  19. Making the eyes 43:32
  20. Making the spatula 45:48
  21. Adding the arms 49:55
  22. Making hat, boots & patty 53:48
  23. Covering the boots 58:12
  24. Making the pants 1:00:56
  25. Adding legs 1:02:13
  26. Making socks 1:03:22
  27. Covering accessories 1:05:38
  28. Airbrushing accessories 1:08:04
  29. Finishing the board 1:10:57
  30. Final details 1:11:59

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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.