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Air Jordan Shoe Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

There's no shoe more iconic than the Air Jordan and today, we're gonna be making this legendary shoe out of cake. Learn how to create the shape, how to layer up the various pieces of the shoe, add the laces and create the polish.

You will also create a shoe box, complete with edible images and lettering.

1:08:28 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create an Air Jordan shoe out of cake
  • Learn how to create the layers of the shoe, the sole and laces
  • How to adjust the shoe if it's a slightly different size

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Stacking the box cake 0:38
  2. Making the shoe template 2:16
  3. Stacking the shoe cake 5:20
  4. Carving the shoe cake 7:22
  5. Making sharp square edges 11:49
  6. Preparing the fondant 18:22
  7. Covering the side of the shoe 27:08
  8. Adding top red details 30:19
  9. Adding toe details 36:39
  10. Adding heel details 40:01
  11. Adding the sole 41:14
  12. Adding the base band 42:35
  13. The bottom of the shoe 46:24
  14. Making the Nike swish 48:18
  15. Adding shoe logos 50:12
  16. Adding shoelaces 51:34
  17. Final shoe details 53:45
  18. Paneling the box cake 55:08
  19. Adding logos to the box 1:01:15
  20. Stacking the shoe and box 1:07:27

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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.