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Updated on October 28, 2021 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

How to Cut a Cake

Skill level: Newb

Usually a cake decorator is not the one serving the cake at an event but you might have to explain how to cut a massive cake to a caterer.

6:36 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • The different methods used to cut cakes for events
  • How big a wedding cake serving is compared to a birthday cake serving
  • Learn how to cut double barrel cakes

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Taking off the top tier 0:30
  2. Removing the structure 0:46
  3. Ways to cut the cake 1:40
  4. How to cut a double barrel cake tier 3:54

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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.