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Updated on August 9, 2019 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Some of the Biggest Battles are Not Seen

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If you could see anxiety, what would it look like? Liz shows us with her incredible piece for the Unseen Battles Collaboration depicting "Anxiety". This collaboration was very powerful in it's message and is full of incredible pieces showing the different struggles people deal with on a daily basis that no one sees or knows about. Here's what Liz had to say about her piece.

"I would like to introduce you to a very personal piece created for the Unseen Battles Collaboration that highlights illness that we don't really talk about in order to help people better understand.

Anxiety Sugar Sculpture Liz Marek

This is my piece based on anxiety which I never really thought was a serious thing until I tried to get pregnant and had to be put on medication to get it under control.

Anxiety Sugar Sculpture Liz Marek

Learning more about anxiety has taught me more about myself and connected deeply with others who suffer with anxiety/depression.

Anxiety Sugar Sculpture Liz Marek Anxiety Sugar Sculpture Liz Marek

Please click through to the page and check out the other wonderful pieces full of heart and emotion! Thank you Erin Schwartz for including me in this unique and emotional collaboration.

HUGE thank you to HotHands for providing the modeling chocolate for this piece! It's like working with a beautiful, smooth clay that happens to be chocolate. I love it!"

Liz also put together a video timelapse of this piece with a powerful message.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. This collaboration hit home for me on multiple levels as I am sure it did many.

Spreading awareness through sugar art is one of the most amazing things we can do. It's a special opportunity we should definitely take advantage of. Bravo to everyone who participated in this collaboration to help spread awareness about some of the unseen battles of the world.

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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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