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

Champagne Bottle Cake

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

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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.