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Breakfast in Bed Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Featuring many of the tricks and techniques used on Food Network's new Ridiculous Cakes TV show, this breakfast in bed cake is the perfect cake to make for the breakfast-lover!

Featuring a pancake cake that tastes like actual pancakes, a gravity-defying syrup bottle, candy eggs and hashbrowns, even an edible OJ glass and oatmeal cookies, this cake has it ALL.

This cake also features candy cookies made by Joyce Marcellus of Toxic Sweet Shop. Check out the cookie tutorial on her YouTube channel in the related videos section.

1:33:17 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create pancake cake stack
  • Learn how to make an edible breakfast in bed serving tray
  • Liz Marek's technique to make a candy OJ glass, even the glass is edible
  • How to create realistic edible candy hashbrowns with peppers and onions
  • Joyce Marcellus' technique to make oatmeal cookies
  • Learn how to make a gravity-defying maple syrup bottle
  • How to make candy eggs

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making edible plates 0:15
  2. Making the syrup bottle 4:31
  3. Making the bottle handle 9:34
  4. Making the syrup (gravity-defying) 12:16
  5. Stacking the pancake cake 19:20
  6. Adding the pancake details 20:40
  7. Coloring the pancakes 22:33
  8. Making the serving tray 25:32
  9. Making the wood grain 32:23
  10. Painting the tray 45:09
  11. Making the eggs 50:10
  12. Assembling the eggs 57:24
  13. Making edible OJ glass: method 1 1:00:57
  14. Making edible OJ glass: method 2 1:11:11
  15. Making the syrup (top pancake) 1:12:40
  16. Making the butter pat 1:15:21
  17. Assembling pancakes and syrup bottle 1:16:27
  18. Making candy peppers 1:18:23
  19. Making onions 1:20:38
  20. Making hash browns 1:21:30
  21. Coloring the hash browns 1:22:32
  22. Making candy pepper 1:27:00
  23. Making the bacon 1:27:44

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.