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Published on October 1, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Dia de los Muertos Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Jennifer Reese is back with a festive Dia de los Muertos cake that's sure to impress. In this course, Jennifer breaks down how to create edible pom-pom's complete with tassels and edible fuzzy texture, how to create a beautiful wafer paper marigold using paper flower techniques, how to create the vibrant, colorful sarape tier using fondant with stitched detailing and how to create and decorate the sugar skull.

1:30:29 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to create a Dia de los Muertos tiered cake
  • How to create the vibrant sarape tier with fondant and stitched details
  • Learn how to create an edible marigold flower out of wafer paper
  • How to make edible pom-poms and arrange them into a festive flourish on the cake

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making The Royal Icing Snow 0:58
  2. Making The Pom Poms 4:50
  3. Adding The Texture To The Pom Poms 9:29
  4. Putting The Pom Poms Together 12:45
  5. Making The Tassels 17:25
  6. Painting The Marigolds 19:50
  7. Curling The Petals 24:35
  8. Putting The Flowers Together 30:08
  9. Pouring The Chocolate Skull 34:12
  10. Unmolding The Chocolate Skull 41:56
  11. Painting The Sugar Skull Design 44:45
  12. Preparing The Serape Tier 49:40
  13. Making The Colored Strips 53:21
  14. Painting The Colored Strips 59:48
  15. Paneling The Serape Tier 1:06:40
  16. Detailing The Serape Tier 1:17:12

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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.