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Egyptian Goddess Bust Cake

Skill level: Advanced

The latest in anatomically-correct sculpting in cake form. Complete with anatomy references, tips from clay sculptors, structure, and more. Learn how to build a realistic female bust cake. An in-depth sculpting tutorial from Liz Marek.

2:56:24 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create an anatomically-correct bust using cake, rice cereal treats, fondant and modeling chocolate
  • Learn how to map out the major forms of the face and check your work
  • How to make realistic sugar eyes
  • Learn how to create jewelry and a headdress out of chocolate
  • Liz Marek's tips and tricks on getting your work to the next level

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making the eyes 0:14
  2. Building the structure 2:59
  3. Carving the cake 6:35
  4. Adding rice cereal treats 11:14
  5. Coloring modeling chocolate 15:29
  6. Covering the body 16:34
  7. Placing the eyes 24:48
  8. Adding the jaw 27:56
  9. Adding the top of the head 31:16
  10. Defining the major forms 33:33
  11. Adding the lips 37:42
  12. Adding the nose 44:43
  13. Refining the eyes 52:59
  14. Refining the cheeks 1:07:23
  15. Adding the collar bones 1:12:20
  16. Refining the neck 1:14:02
  17. Understanding upper body bones and muscles 1:16:47
  18. Adding the shoulder blades 1:25:15
  19. Refining the chest and upper arms 1:26:05
  20. Checking your work 1:38:04
  21. Modeling chocolate finishing techniques 1:44:04
  22. Adding the breasts 1:45:19
  23. Airbrushing skin tones 1:52:42
  24. Prepping for airbrush 1:54:20
  25. Painting the eyes 2:02:54
  26. Adding the eyebrows 2:08:33
  27. Adding makeup 2:13:40
  28. Making eyelashes 2:19:55
  29. Making the clothing 2:21:47
  30. Making the necklace & armbands 2:25:49
  31. Painting details 2:31:15
  32. Creating the brooch 2:35:05
  33. Creating the hair 2:40:39
  34. Making the headdress 2:43:34
  35. Decorating the board 2:50:11

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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.