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Cinderella Cookie Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Lucie Radcliffe of Lucie Bakes teaches us how to make an incredible, edible Cinderella Cookie! In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and decorate this show-stopper cookie, how to add dimension to your cookie designs, and how to add extra details like Cinderella's shimming glass slipper and ruffled ballroom dress.

1:17:25 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a beautiful detailed Cinderella Cookie
  • Learn how to map out and build up colors to create this iconic design
  • How to create shading and dimension on a cookie
  • Lucie's tips and tricks to add bling and detail to make this cookie shine

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Tracing the outline 0:36
  2. Piping the outline 5:45
  3. Flooding the cookie 9:44
  4. Preparing to paint 18:59
  5. Painting facial details 20:58
  6. Painting the ears and hair 31:34
  7. Shading the face and neck 35:30
  8. Painting the upper body 39:30
  9. Painting the lower body 43:54
  10. Painting skirt ruffles 48:02
  11. Adding dimension 50:10
  12. Sleeve and bustle details 51:18
  13. Dress shadows 54:57
  14. Dress highlights 1:00:44
  15. Final shadows 1:05:40
  16. Shading the collarbone 1:06:46
  17. Adding sparkle 1:07:41
  18. Making the glass slipper 1:10:32
  19. Accessories and final details 1:11:43

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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.