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Updated on April 30, 2020 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Boho Birch Cake

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Skill level: Intermediate

Boho is very on-trend right now. If you've been to Pinterest, you've already seen tons of examples of this pretty style, often including: touches of nature, wild flowers, feathers and pops of gold.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to make super-realistic bark textures using your own homemade-molds, how to make pretty Boho style flowers including: the Juliet rose, miniature roses, pepper berries and leaves. You'll also learn how to make realistic deer antlers which are also very on-trend right now. The perfect cake for a baby shower or birthday.

2:10:54 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a variety of flowers, leaves and berries including the Juliet rose, miniature roses and pepper berries
  • Liz Marek's technique to create hyper-realistic birch
  • Learn how to sculpt deer antlers to elevate your boho cakes to another level
  • A cool technique to create stunning, realistic gold bird feathers

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Getting started with gumpaste supplies 1:44
  2. Making the Juliet rose center 3:44
  3. Creating the center petals 12:00
  4. Creating the second row of petals 17:10
  5. Assembling Juliet rose 20:04
  6. Making the miniature rose center 24:48
  7. Miniature rose outer petals 29:18
  8. Filler thin leaves 31:42
  9. Making rose leaves 36:52
  10. Creating the filler feathers 39:24
  11. Dusting the Juliet roses 44:58
  12. Dusting miniature roses 48:42
  13. Dusting the rose leaves 52:11
  14. Watercolor leaves 56:04
  15. Creating the pepper berries 58:46
  16. Golden feathers 1:00:10
  17. Building antler structure 1:01:52
  18. Sculpting antlers 1:12:46
  19. Painting the antlers 1:21:13
  20. Making birch molds 1:29:11
  21. Covering the cake 1:32:59
  22. Adding bark texture 1:37:08
  23. Painting and Texturing 1:45:08
  24. Food safety tips 1:57:24
  25. Placing antlers and flowers 1:59:35

Downloads

Materials List

Antler Reference

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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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