Sugar Geek Show logo

menu icon
subscribe
search icon

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

Gold Mine Birthday Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

In our latest tutorial, you'll be learning how to create a golden birthday cake. Golden birthdays are when the child's age, the month, and the day all line up (April 4th for a 4 year-old child in this case). I decided to go all in on the gold theme, creating a gold mine, with a fun number 4 emerging from the top of the Wiley Coyote style mountain and a track of rails the gold cart sits upon.

You'll learn how to create a fun, cartoony style cake mountain, how to add a gold mine into a mountain so that it looks like it's holding up and supporting the mine shaft and how to make an adorable mine cart.

1:06:20 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to sculpt an irregular mountain shape out of cake
  • Learn how to make the wooden planks and cart rails out of edible materials
  • How to create an edible metallic number cake topper
  • A cool technique on how to make edible trees

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Building the structure 1:27
  2. Coloring fondant 5:14
  3. Covering the board 7:00
  4. Stacking the cake mountain 9:54
  5. Carving the cake 16:00
  6. Crumb coating the cake 18:50
  7. Making the mining cart 19:12
  8. Golden number topper 29:58
  9. Building up the mine 32:30
  10. Covering in fondant 37:00
  11. Texturing details 40:30
  12. Working the top tier 42:34
  13. Making the boulders 47:00
  14. Making the wooden beams 49:24
  15. Making the rocks 51:47
  16. Making and placing the tracks 53:28
  17. Placing the number topper 56:53
  18. Airbrushing details 58:04
  19. Attaching cart 59:16
  20. Adding tires 1:02:24
  21. Adding trees 1:04:00
  22. Final details 1:05:32

More Paid Video

About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.