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Updated on December 2, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Champagne Bottle Cake Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

Celebrate the New Year with a splash! Our latest sculpted cake tutorial is the perfect show-stopper for any celebration. Featuring a champagne bottle design with fun and intricate details, including a gravity-defying splash of pink champagne!

The perfect cake for any black tie celebration, let's get our tools together and get started!

52:58 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a beautiful champagne bottle cake
  • Learn how to stack and sculpt a tall cake while giving it structure so it doesn't fall
  • How to make a beautiful pink champagne splash
  • Tricks on how to create the details for the bottle neck

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Coloring ganache 0:11
  2. Making the cake structure 3:05
  3. Ganache crumbcoat 5:16
  4. Stacking the cake 8:24
  5. Bulking the bottle neck 19:41
  6. Making the champagne splash 23:43
  7. Making the letters 26:55
  8. Finishing top of bottle 29:51
  9. Adding shine to bottle 35:16
  10. Painting details 36:30
  11. Attaching letters to bottle 37:08
  12. Adding bottle ribbon 38:35
  13. Making bottle seal 40:15
  14. Attaching the label 41:24
  15. Forming the splash 42:49
  16. Attaching splash to bottle 52:07

Downloads

Materials List

Bottle Label Template

Full Size Bottle Template 01

Full Size Bottle Template 02

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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.

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