Skill level: Intermediate
Liz’s latest tutorial is here and it’s full of cute! Liz made this adorable sculpted mermaid cake for her best friends daughter’s 5th birthday! In this tutorial you’ll learn how to a make a gravity-defying structure, how to sculpt those adorable proportions, make flexible gelatin mermaid tail, hand-painted details and more!
1:07:40 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to create a cut stylized mermaid cake dipping out of the water
- How to make a gravity-defying cake structure
- Learn how to sculpt a posable mermaid tail
- How to make cute styled eyes, nose and mouth
- Liz Marek’s tips and tricks for making beautiful hair easily
Tutorial Chapters
- Making the cake structure
- Making the bottom of chin
- Assembling cake structure
- Stacking the cakes
- Carving the head
- Making the top of head
- Crumbcoating the head
- Stacking the tail
- Carving the tail
- Making the tail tip
- Adding the nose
- Building up the shoulders
- Making the tail flipper
- Making skin-toned fondant
- Smoothing out the body
- Creating the eyes
- Adding the eyebrows
- Adding the mouth
- Paneling the tail in fondant
- Finishing the tail fins
- Painting the scales
- Adding the hair
- Making the water
- Adding the arms