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Updated on April 6, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Breakfast in Bed Cake

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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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Materials List

Related Recipes


Joyce Marcellus' Cookie Tutorial


Real Gummy Candy Recipe

No-Spread Cookie Dough Recipe

Pancake Cake Recipe

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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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