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Updated on April 30, 2020 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Rainbow Troll Cake Topper

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Skill level: Intermediate

What do you make for a 5 year old girl who's obsessed with rainbows, unicorns, Trolls and Star Wars? The rainbow drip cake of course!

This cake can be adapted to switch up the details to any design and character. Perfect for the little indecisive cake lover in your life 🙂

1:10:03 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to sculpt a cute troll cake topper
  • Learn how to make frizzy hair with a cool and easy technique
  • How to keep accurate proportions when creating a popular character
  • Liz Marek's take on the rainbow drip cake

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Building the Rainbow topper 0:40
  2. Troll body structure 6:37
  3. Building with proportions 11:32
  4. Making the clothes 28:50
  5. Troll face 34:11
  6. Detailing the clothes 45:51
  7. Making the hair 48:36
  8. Finishing details 57:42
  9. Making rainbow buttercream 1:00:28
  10. Adding drip to cake 1:06:02
  11. Final details 1:08:11

Downloads

Materials List

Troll Topper Template

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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.

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