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Updated on December 7, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Air Jordan Shoe Cake Tutorial

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Cake sculpted to look like an Air Jordan shoe sitting on a shoe box.

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

Downloads

Materials List

Shoe Cake Cutting Pieces 01

Shoe Cake Cutting Pieces 02

Sole Template

Shoe Cake Placement Template

Shoe Cake Cutting Template

Edible Images

Shoe Cake Label

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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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