Elsa Bust Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Advanced

What better time to make an Ice Queen bust cake than right before Christmas? This Elsa Bust Cake is Liz Marek's latest sculpted cake, featuring stylized facial features, a braided hair demo, how to do edible makeup, and how to sculpt a head from scratch (no molds).

3:09:50 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to make a stylized Elsa Ice Queen Bust Cake
• How to make a cartoony head sculpt without a mold
• How to plot facial features from reference pictures
• Liz covers common mistakes made with facial features
• Ways to check your work as a sculptor
• How to sculpt a chest using all cake (no rice cereal treats)
• How to do Elsa's makeup and how to fix mistakes
• How to create Elsa's braided hair pony tail or how to create her hair down

Tutorial Chapters

1. Making the head structure 0:37
2. Modeling chocolate head 4:48
3. Facial proportions 13:21
4. Adding the mouth 20:55
5. Adding the nose 33:28
6. Making isomalt eyes 36:56
7. Adding the eyes 44:41
8. Shaping the face 59:23
9. Making the ears 1:22:58
10. Making edible glitter 1:29:33
11. Making the structure 1:32:50
12. Carving the cake 1:33:56
13. Adding the head and arms 1:39:40
14. Crumb coat 1:45:32
15. Making the neck 1:47:50
16. Coloring the fondant 1:48:48
17. Covering in buttercream 1:50:21
18. Covering the back in fondant 1:54:09
19. Finishing making glitter 1:59:26
20. Covering the front in fondant 2:00:34
21. Covering the face in fondant 2:03:48
22. Smoothing 2:09:18
23. Coloring the dress 2:21:41
24. Texturing the fondant 2:22:10
25. Applying the fondant 2:24:06
26. The dress seam 2:27:26
27. Eye makeup 2:30:34
28. Adding eyelashes 2:35:44
29. Adding blush and eyebrows 2:43:16
30. Lip color 2:51:04
31. Adding the hair 2:52:50