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Updated on September 30, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Safari Cake + Sachiko Windbiel = Cuteness Overload

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If you like cute things (and who doesn't?) then you are going to LOVE this latest tutorial! Sachiko Windbiel of Mimicafe Union has done it again! She has worked her magic to give us another incredibly cute and fun tutorial. Sticking with the safari theme this cake showcases a little explorer boy and his jungle friends on a safari adventure.

Jungle Safari Gelatin Cake

Sachiko first shows us the steps to making this incredibly detailed jungle safari explorer and shares her tips and tricks to creating her signature figures and facial details!

Explorer

She also shows us how to make not one, not two, okay I'm gonna skip ahead, she shows us how to make SIX adorable jungle animals! Perfect for cake or cupcake toppers. I also have to mention how hilarious and fun Sachiko is, my face literally hurt from smiling and laughing for over three hours.

Fondant Lion Sachiko Windbiel

In this tutorial you'll also learn the beginning steps of working with gelatin to make a super cool grass filled river around the cake.

Jungle Safari Gelatin Cake

Liz takes you through the basic tools and steps to creating this amazing gelatin effect. I mean check out that floating grass!

Gelatin Cake Seaweed Grass

Let's not forget the awesome edible palm trees, that's right, I said ED-I-BLE, as in you can EAT them. Move over cheap plastic wannabe's.

Edible Palm Trees

I am willing to bet this is a tutorial you don't wanna miss! It's chock-full of techniques you'll surely be using for many cakes to come and each and every customer is guaranteed to be impressed! I mean why wouldn't you want to set yourself apart from your competition? Check out the promo below then head on over to the Full Jungle Safari Gelatin Cake Tutorial. Not a member yet? Sign up HERE, you won't regret it, you'll get access to this and hundreds of other tutorials. You can also get the crystal clear Gelatin Recipe free!

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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.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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