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Updated on December 8, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Musical Wedding Cake Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

Music is like a dream, and this wedding cake is no exception! Learn how to craft a drum tier, a beautiful staircase piano key double barrel, a musical heart detail, and a keepsake cake topper, made out of clay that will never go bad.

There's plenty of details, tips and tricks to cover, so let's get started!

1:01:17 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a wedding cake out with a musical theme
  • Learn to make a keep-sake cake topper that will last
  • How to get a awesome silver finish on the drum tier
  • Learn the tricks to make a staircase tier
  • How to create a wedding cake out with a musical theme

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Stacking the cake 0:11
  2. Making the staircase 2:50
  3. Final crumbcoat 6:32
  4. Making a keepsake cake topper 8:49
  5. Making the donut 11:37
  6. Making the penguin 16:10
  7. Making the lobster 21:07
  8. Covering the cake 28:01
  9. Prepping modeling chocolate 29:17
  10. Airbrushing the cake: part 1 32:01
  11. Making the drum details 33:24
  12. Airbrushing the cake: part 2 40:17
  13. Covering the stair tier 43:13
  14. Making the piano keys 46:34
  15. Finishing the bottom 52:44
  16. Making the top tier piano keys 53:53
  17. Adding the heart detail 55:29
  18. Stacking the cake 58:37

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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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