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Floating Cloud Unicorn Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn how to make this super-cute gravity-defying floating cloud unicorn cake! In this online course, you will learn how to create a structure that supports the floating cloud, how to create an edible shiny rainbow, learn how to sculpt the cutest little unicorn cake topper you ever did see, and how to create the edible clouds floating around the sky blue base cake.

1:23:39 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to make a gravity-defying cloud and rainbow
  • How to create a cute unicorn cake topper and how to sculpt all the facial details
  • What to cover a cake in fondant and what to do when your fondant tears
  • How to create cute edible clouds

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Frosting the cake 0:35
  2. Making the structure 2:06
  3. Covering the cake in fondant 7:33
  4. Adding the bottom tier 18:36
  5. Coloring the isomalt 20:38
  6. Pouring and shaping the isomalt 25:05
  7. Making the rainbow base 31:45
  8. Adding the second tier 38:37
  9. Making the cloud 42:39
  10. Making the body 47:21
  11. Making the legs 49:08
  12. Making the head 54:28
  13. Adding facial details 57:31
  14. Adding ears and eyes 1:00:35
  15. Painting the unicorn 1:02:30
  16. Adding the horn 1:05:05
  17. Making the eyelashes 1:06:32
  18. Final unicorn details 1:07:28
  19. Making the rainbow 1:08:21
  20. Adding cloud decorations 1:14:09
  21. Adding the rainbow and unicorn 1:18:05
  22. Making the unicorn hair 1:20:30

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.