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Updated on February 8, 2020 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Paneling a Cake in Fondant

Skill level: Newb

Covering flawlessly in fondant can be tricky or maybe you're covering a very tall cake! Paneling is a great way to cover cakes to get that sharp edge. Especially useful for double barrels, tall cakes and square cakes.

14:55 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to get a flawless finish with fondant on difficult cake shapes
  • An easy trick to remove bubbles from your fondant

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Conditioning the fondant 0:22
  2. Preparing top fondant 1:02
  3. Preparing side panel of fondant 1:50
  4. Preparing side panel of fondant 6:02

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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.