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Skill level: Intermediate

Want to know the secrets to this plaid lumberjack cake that has become an internet sensation? You might think you've got it figured out but the process might surprise you! Be one of the first to create this original and super-trendy cake design! This tutorial teaches you everything from baking to structure!

Pair this tutorial up with our famous vanilla cake recipe and you'll be off to chopping down those taste buds of lumber laborers everywhere!

35:36 Minutes of Instruction

The Shorter Version is below

What You Will Learn

• How to create a plaid cake design on the inside
• You'll learn how to create the rustic bark on the outside of the cake
• A cool trick to make a gravity-defying axe
• How to make a realistic woodgrain texture on the top of the cake

Tutorial Chapters

1. Making the cake batter 0:28
2. Preparing the cake pans 2:00
3. Assembling the cake 4:50
4. Crumb coating the cake 13:44
5. Making the axe 14:56
6. Adding the feet to the bottom of the cake 21:02
7. Covering the top of the cake and making the woodgrain 22:02
8. Making the bark texture 25:40
9. Painting details 31:06

Skill level: Intermediate

They say cake pops are of the devil but when they look this good, all you'll hear are the angels singing JOY TO THE WORLD! In this video our awesome guest instructor Jo Bloom of Cake Poppin shows us how to make perfectly delicious cake pops that you can hang like a real ornament! You'll be decking your halls with delicious treats for the holidays!

9:05 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to prep your cake pops and dipping
• Assembling the hanging structure
• How to decorate the cake pops to look just like Christmas ornaments

Skill level: Intermediate

This hanging Christmas ornament cake will have your friends wondering how you did it! The crazy part? It's 99% edible! The cake is easy to assemble and is the perfect size to bring to your next holiday party! This design will even work for so many other themes! A balloon, star wars, planets! The options are endless!

35:11 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to prep the structure
• Jo's technique to assemble the cake and frost a cake sphere
• How to create plaid wafer paper flowers
• Decorating the cake to look just like a Christmas ornament

Skill level: Intermediate
Your invitation to a very Harry Potter wedding has arrived! Learn how to make this beautiful geek-tastic wedding cake fit for any potterhead. Not into Mr. Potter? No worries, the tips and techniques you learn on this cake can be translated to many cake designs! Includes a printable map template download.

Video Content

1. Covering tiers in fondant
2. Creating the patronus structure and cake topper
3. Applying the wafer paper map
4. Making the modeling chocolate wands
5. Hand painting details on the bottom tier
6. Putting it all together!

Skill level: Advanced

Liz Marek teaches you how to make a super scary and realistic zombie cake! Everything from structure to detailed anatomy is included in this gory but great tutorial! Tutorial includes many reference photos for anatomy and zombie details!

1:41:35 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to create the structure, assembling and working through realistic proportions
• Sculpting features, building up the body
• Adding details such as airbrushing for dimension, hand-painting, glazind and more!

Skill level: Intermediate
Liz Marek teaches you how to create an Alice in wonderland garden party themed cake complete with gumpaste teacups, wafer paper flowers and a beautifully detailed golden doorknob.Video Content
1. Creating the teacups, shaping and drying
2. Preparing the cake, adding on realistic leaf texture
3. Creating the gold doorknob and adding fun details
4. Making the wafer paper flower
5. Hand-painting the teacups and adding shine
6. Assembling the cakeThis cake has whimsical written all over it! You'll love learning how to make perfectly dainty teacups that looks like REAL porcelain! The ornate doorknob is full of pretty gold detail and looks stunning against the green leafy backdrop! Place this cake on a table full of tiny foods, teacups and teapots and have yourself a party!

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make yummy and realistic looking foods! Pairs perfectly with the BBQ cake tutorial!Making realistic food is all in the details! Texture and color are the most effective ways to fooling someone into thinking that piece of fondant might really be corn on the cob or a burger or whatever! In this video Liz goes over some key steps to creating yummy and realistic food!

Skill level: Advanced
Spiderman... spiderman... does whatever a spiderman does. This spiderman bust looks tricky but you might be surprised at how easy it can be when you understand each step! Liz Marek will guide you through the creation of this incredible cake from making the structure, carving cake, using anatomy reference photos, guiding you through proportion and final details!Bust cakes are one of those cake designs that can be used in a million different ways! This versitile tutorial will be one that you use over and over.

Video Content:
1. Creating the structure
2. Stacking cake, carving and crumbcoating
3. Covering the cake flawlessly with fondant
4. Adding details and airbrushing

Tutorial includes many references photos for spiderman, anatomy and a template for the spiderman logo.

Skill level: Intermediate
Make your own giant cupcake cake without the special pan! Learn how to carve a beautiful cupcake shape and even add on cool candles that really light up!

Video Content:
1. Stacking and carving the cake into the cupcake shape
2. Covering cake in fondant
3. Airbrushing details
4. Creating the candles that really light up using LED lights and isomalt
5. Final details

Liz prefers pre-cooked isomalt from www.simicakes.com which is easy to use and great for beginners and professionals alike.

Skill level: Newb
Watch Liz create this award-winning cake sculpture called the "Mermaid Queen" created for NCACS and placed 1st in her division.

This cake was a labor of love. My love for all things mermaid. I am obsessed with finicky little details like shells and coral crowns (made of simicakes isomalt of course). I spent forever making molds from beads and shells to create her neck piece and I broke my pasta machine making her hair. The scariest part was putting her in a box and taking her on a plane all the way from Oregon to Virginia for the cake show. Her hair suffered a little breakage but nothing too bad. She still got First Place. The only bummer was I could not bring her home wahhhhh.

Skill level: Intermediate
What's not to love about a skiing sasquatch? This super cute tutorial was created by Liz Marek. Liz teaches you the ins and outs of creating an armature for an edible figurine. Perfectly sized for those small cakes that still need a lot of details!

Video Content:
1. Creating the sasquatch armature
2. Sculpting the sasquatch with modeling chocolate
3. Sculpting the cake and making the trees
4. Placing the topper on the cake

Liz prefers sweetastic modeling chocolate for her figures because it is resistant to hot hands and provides great details!

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn the basics of sculpting anatomy for a realistic face.

Skill level: Newb
Learn how to place your watermark on your photos so it's safe to share on social media and no one will ever wonder who made the cake.

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make a beautiful and delicious looking rose out of modeling chocolate!

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn how to make a cake that looks like a rustic bucket of ice with realistic-looking beer bottles and custom labels. This cake is perfect for Father's Day or any event involving summer time, outdoors BBQ, or the big game!

28:57 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to carve a cake to look like a tapered bucket
• An easy method to create ice cubes out of isomalt
• How to make the edible beer bottles
• How to create a realistic wood texture out of fondant

Tutorial Chapters

1. Prepping the cake 3:12
2. Making the ice cubes 7:58
3. Making the bottles 8:44
4. Making the bucket slats 13:58
5. Applying the slats 20:20
6. Finishing the cake 25:20

Skill level: Newb
Learn how to make the popular Hulk fist using anatomy.

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make a puppy topper out of RKT. Great for the puppy and kitten basket tutorial.

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make this basket-shaped cake. Goes great with the puppy and kitten tutorials.

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make a kitten topper out of RKT. Great for the kitten and puppy basket tutorial.

Skill level: Intermediate
Learn how to make a pizza cake that looks so real people will be confused that it's really a cake!