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Published on June 15, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Portable Six-Pack Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Mitchie Curran is back for another edible creation featuring a pick-up-and-go six-pack cake! In this tutorial, Mitchie breaks down how to make a portable six-pack cake, featuring edible isomalt bottles, hand-made edible labels and designs using Canva and how to put it all together to create a fabulous cake perfect for Father's Day.

There's a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!

1:46:42 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make an edible six-pack cake that you can actually pick up and carry around
  • Learn how to make the edible soda bottles
  • How to hand-letter and paint the labels and signage
  • Learn how to use Canva to quickly make custom edible designs

Cake sculpted to look like a portable six-pack of soda or beer

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Supplies And Ingredients 1:03
  2. Building Structure 3:44
  3. Stacking Cake 11:19
  4. Coloring The Modeling Chocolate 18:07
  5. How To Cast Isomalt Into Molds 19:18
  6. Cutting The Templates 38:01
  7. Creating Graphics 41:22
  8. Hand Painting Labels 47:22
  9. Paneling Cake 1:03:28
  10. Attaching Labels 1:23:52
  11. Decorating Bottles 1:28:24
  12. Final Assembly 1:42:39

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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.