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Teddy Bear Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

The last of our cake structure basics series, the teddy bear cake is a great example of how to use PVC materials to make a standing figure cake. This cute teddy bear has a furry texture created with buttercream, cake and rice cereal inside along with fondant accents to make an adorable show-stopper for a birthday party, special occasion or baby shower!

1:21:58 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to create a textured teddy bear cake out of buttercream
  • How to make a standing animal cake structure
  • Learn how to make a buttercream fur texture
  • Scaling and sculpting

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Tools and materials 0:39
  2. Setting the scale 12:14
  3. Cutting PVC and adjusting 18:47
  4. Assembling 28:17
  5. Adding rice cereal 43:23
  6. The chocolate base of the body48:07
  7. Stacking cake of the body49:04
  8. Trimming cake of the body51:50
  9. The chocolate base 54:36
  10. Stacking cake of the head55:25
  11. Trimming cake of the head56:48
  12. The arms 59:23
  13. The ears 1:04:51
  14. The nose 1:07:51
  15. The fur 1:11:53
  16. Finishing the ears 1:18:01
  17. Finishing the eyes 1:18:41
  18. The tail 1:19:11
  19. The paws 1:19:41
  20. Finishing the board 1:20:08

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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.