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Updated on April 30, 2020 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Face Sculpting with a Chocolate Skull

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Skill Level: Intermediate
In this tutorial, you will learn basic facial anatomy that is sure to bring life to your sculpture, creating lasting impressions on all who see!With step by step instructions from Liz, you will learn how to sculpt a face starting with the making of a delicious chocolate skull using Liz's silicone skull mold. This skull is a quicker platform for making realistic sculpted faces. Using modeling chocolate you will be taught how to create the eyes, build up the mouth and define the lips. You will also learn how to build up the nose and create the nostrils with the greatest of ease. Next, you will be shown how forming the cheeks will give definition and depth to the face. Then, follow Liz as she teaches you how paint realistic life like eyes before creating the lower and upper eyelids around the eyeballs. And then, you will be shown you how to cover the forehead and define the brow lines before moving on to a brief explanation on how to create the tear ducts and cover the chin and neck with modeling chocolate. Lastly, discover Liz's simple steps on the proper placement of the ears as well as the minimal details on sculpting the ears. With all the amazing steps in this tutorial, you will be ready to sculpt realistic faces quicker and better than ever before!

Run Time

47:03

Techniques Used

  1. Sculpting on a Chocolate Skull
  2. Facial Details
  3. Modeling Chocolate (2lbs of ivory: regular from www.sweetastic.com or for hothands, www.hothandsmc.com)

Tutorial Chapters

  • 0:32: Making the Skull Mold
  • 2:37: Adding the Eyes
  • 3:26: Building up the Mouth
  • 7:49: Adding the Nose
  • 12:50: Adding the Cheeks
  • 23:01: Painting the Eyes
  • 23:14: Building the Eyelids
  • 30:20: Covering the Forehead
  • 31:26: Building up the Eyebrows
  • 36:41: Creating the Tearducts
  • 38:17: Covering the Chin and Neck
  • 39:28: Making the Ears

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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.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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