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Updated on January 3, 2022 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

Baby Yoda Star Wars Cake Tutorial

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This is the absolute best baby Yoda tutorial! Complete with templates and full step-by-step instructions. Edible sugar eyes, modeling chocolate body, fondant clothes, and gummy soup!

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn how to make the baby Yoda Star Wars cake from instructor Elizabeth Marek. You will learn how to create a sculpted baby master from rice cereal treats or from similarly sized cake rounds.

 

Elizabeth shows how to make step-by-step edible eyeballs, how to sculpt the face and measure the proportions of the face. Techniques on realistic skin tones, adding shadow and depth are covered, as well as how to make the clothing and textures.

1:32:29 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a baby Yoda Star Wars sculpted cake (or keepsake version with rice cereal treats inside)
  • Learn how to make realistic large edible eyes
  • How to make a cake version or a 'keepsake' version
  • Learn how to make a simple cake structure and make it food-safe
  • How to scale reference photos

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Preparing the cakes 0:46
  2. Making the eyes 1:18
  3. Making the structure 4:42
  4. Stacking and carving the cake 7:05
  5. The arms structure 16:36
  6. Adding the head and eyes 19:52
  7. Adding the cheeks and mouth 29:00
  8. Smoothing 47:26
  9. Adding the ears 50:17
  10. Building up the back of the head 57:48
  11. Covering in fondant 1:00:51
  12. Making the arms 1:06:31
  13. Making the collar 1:09:50
  14. Making the cup 1:15:26
  15. Making hands 1:21:07
  16. Filling the cup 1:31:09

 

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Materials List

Eyeball Template

Scale Reference 01

Scale Reference 02

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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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