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Published on July 1, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Homestead Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Jennifer Reese from Good Gosh Ganache brings us a clean and classic cake design featuring several homestead textures that will make your traditional wedding and birthday cakes stand out and wow the party-goers.

Jennifer breaks down several unique techniques and textures on each tier including: a custom 3D monogram, a beautiful fondant gradient technique that doesn't use an airbrush, a decorated cake board made to look like cobblestone with edible moss, a painted wooden shiplap texture, and topiary treats.

There's a lot to cover in this tutorial, so let's get our tools together and let's get started!

1:11:44 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a cake featuring home-finisihed styles and textures
  • Learn how to make a custom 3D monogram
  • How to make a fondant gradient without an airbrush
  • Learn how to make edible cobblestones and edible moss
  • How to make shiplap texture and topiary treats

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making The Cakeboard 0:51
  2. Adding The Moss To The Cakeboard 7:23
  3. Paneling The Shiplap Tier 12:20
  4. Adding Shiplap Impressions 19:56
  5. Adding Dust And Glaze 22:03
  6. Applying The Crest 25:17
  7. Building The Crest 36:29
  8. Making The Fondant Gradient 41:49
  9. Paneling The Cake 51:16
  10. Adding Edible Moss 57:29
  11. Making The Chocolate Pot 59:53
  12. Filling The Treat 1:03:15
  13. Building The Plant 1:05:15
  14. Adding Edible Moss To The Plant 1:09:20

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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.