Updated on September 22, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Edible Zombie Eyeball Tutorial

Skill level: Newb

Learn how to make a spooky zombie eye, perfect for cupcake toppers for a Halloween party or for use in a sculpted zombie cake. There's several steps when making a realistic eyeball like this, and I show how to build up the layers of edible material you will need to create this fun look!

22:30 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

How to make a realistic, edible eyeball

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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.