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

Christmas Tree Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, your bows are so dee-lic-ousssss. Yep, that's right! Learn how to make a fully edible Christmas Tree cake that is the perfect centerpiece to your next holiday shindig! In this tutorial, you learn how to sculpt the cake, make teeny-tiny edible decorations, how to put lights on your tree and oh, how to make it spin! woohoo!

50:56 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to sculpt a cake to look like a tree
  • Liz Marek's technique to add real-working lights into the tree cake
  • How to make the entire cake spin, which is a show-stopper at your holiday party

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Carving the cakes 2:28
  2. Making the green fondant 9:58
  3. Covering the cakes 10:48
  4. Airbrushing the cake 18:44
  5. Prepping the christmas lights 22:00
  6. Stacking the cakes 26:06
  7. Making ornaments 27:46
  8. Attaching the ornaments to the cake 33:02
  9. Baking your cake board 38:00
  10. Carving the cake 40:08
  11. 38:00

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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.