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

Gingham Spring Cake

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Skill Level: Intermediate
Spring has already sprung but it is never too late to create this one of a kind watercolor creation completed with a floral arrangement and a top tier that has a surprise gingham center.First begin by baking, trimming, and cutting the gingham cakes before assembling the cut pieces to form the layers as shown by Liz in this tutorial. Next, stack and frost each layer with a thin layer of ganache. Then, cover the cake in a final coat of ganache and chill overnight. After that you will learn how to create and assemble perfectly pink poppies, delicate jasmine flowers, realistic amaranth flowers, and gorgeous hydrangeas using cutters, veiners, and other simple techniques designed to make this amazing floral arrangement come to life. Moving on, learn how to cover the cake board with marbled fondant and then use isomalt to create the crackle effect inspired by Choux Cake Studio's Crackle Tutorial.

You will then be shown how to finish the cakes by covering them in fondant and paint each tier using edible watercolors before stacking them onto the cake board. Lastly, Liz will show you how to arrange the sugar flowers onto the cake before dusting them with water or steam to lock in their colors. You will then be able to take the tools and techniques learned in this tutorial and apply them to any and all future cake orders!

Run Time

1:01:55

Techniques Used

  1. Isomalt
  2. Fondant
  3. Watercolors
  4. Sugar Flowers

Tutorial Chapters

  • 0:47: Assembling the Gingham Cake Layers
  • 7:34: Making the Pink Poppies
  • 13:30: Assembling the Poppy Flowers
  • 17:56: Making the Jasmine Leaves
  • 20:00: Assembling the Jasmine Leaves
  • 22:10: Creating the Amaranth
  • 28:55: Assembling the Amaranth
  • 30:13: Making the Hydrangeas
  • 32:24: Assembling the Hydrangeas
  • 33:36: Dusting the Leaves
  • 38:41: Glazing the Leaves
  • 45:47: Assembling the Leaves
  • 46:45: Making the Leaves
  • 48:38: Dusting the Leaves
  • 56:28: Glazing the Leaves

Downloads

Materials List
Gingham Pattern Template
Assembly Instructions
Vanilla Bean Strawberry Cake Recipe

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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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