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Updated on October 28, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

How to Cut a Cake

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Skill level: Newb

Usually a cake decorator is not the one serving the cake at an event but you might have to explain how to cut a massive cake to a caterer.

6:36 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • The different methods used to cut cakes for events
  • How big a wedding cake serving is compared to a birthday cake serving
  • Learn how to cut double barrel cakes

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Taking off the top tier 0:30
  2. Removing the structure 0:46
  3. Ways to cut the cake 1:40
  4. How to cut a double barrel cake tier 3:54

Cake Decorating Basics: Fundamentals

1. Cake Tool Review
2. Airless Space Buttercream
3. Leveling and Torting a Cake
4. Filling and Crumbcoating a Cake
5. Avoiding Blowouts
6. The Final Coat of Buttercream
7. The Upside-Down Method
8. The Secret to Small Cakes
9. Covering a Cake in Fondant
10. Sharp Fondant Edges
11. Easy Double Barrel Cake
12. Paneling a Cake in Fondant
13. How to Stack Cakes
14. All About Cake Boards
15. Boxing Cakes for Delivery
16. Cake Delivery Kit
17. How to Cut Wedding Cakes

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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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