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Gravity-Defying Floating Bowls Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Have you ever wondered how to make a cake that looks like it's floating in air? This tutorial teaches you how to build the structure, incorporate supports and fun effects that complete this gravity-defying floating bowls cake.

This cake is perfect for the little artist's birthday, and artsy party-goers will be wowed by this incredible creation!

43:04 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a gravity-defying cake structure
  • Learn how to make bowl-shaped cakes
  • How to create a dripping colorful design of bowls that pour into each other
  • Learn the tips and tricks to covering tricky designs and shapes in fondant

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Pouring chocolate spheres 0:55
  2. Putting together the structure 4:15
  3. Carving the cake 6:36
  4. Attaching the bottom bowl 7:55
  5. Trimming the chocolate 16:04
  6. Assembling the middle bowl 16:26
  7. Trimming the middle bowl 18:01
  8. Frosting the cake 19:15
  9. Making the bowl topper 21:35
  10. Creating the handle 22:19
  11. Covering the bowls in fondant 23:54
  12. Creating the borders 28:10
  13. Covering the topper 30:40
  14. Covering the bottom bowl 31:08
  15. Painting the bowls 34:15
  16. Creating fondant drips 36:50
  17. Creating water ganache 38:09
  18. Attaching the topper 40:15

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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.