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Published on December 15, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Donut Pool Floaty Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn how to make a realistic pool floaty cake just like the one I made for my daughter's birthday party. This course covers how to get the look and plastic texture of a pool floaty, how to add the sprinkle design to the fondant, how to recreate a rippled water effect and how to cut out and sculpt the donut shape from cake layers.

26:19 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to make a realistic pool floaty cake
  • How to get the plastic look in edible material
  • Learn how to add sprinkle details to a flat color
  • How to make a rippled water effect using gelatin

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Carving And Stacking The Cake 0:32
  2. Covering The Cake In Buttercream 4:04
  3. Making The Gelatin Base 7:20
  4. Covering The Cake In Fondant Pt.1 10:42
  5. Making The Donut Decoration 12:48
  6. Covering The Cake In Fondant Pt.2 18:16

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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.