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King Protea and Eucalyptus Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Anna Astashkina of Astashkina Cakes, based in Chicago, Illinois joins us for this amazing King Protea and Eucalyptus cake project. Anna is an award-winning cake designer and sugar artist known for her elegant modern painted cakes featuring nature - inspired floral arrangements and unique textures.

2:16:37 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a King Protea sugar flower
  • Learn how to create realistic eucalyptus foliage
  • How to create a stunningly elegant wedding cake texture
  • Anna's tips and tricks to arrange and produce this beautiful cake project

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Coloring the gum paste 0:55
  2. Making the eucalyptus 7:50
  3. Dusting the eucalyptus 26:21
  4. Assembling the eucalyptus 31:12
  5. Making protea leaves 41:11
  6. Dusting protea leaves 49:56
  7. Finishing the leaves 53:26
  8. Making the protea center 54:55
  9. Making the protea petals 1:09:13
  10. Attaching layers of petals 1:15:42
  11. Dusting the protea flower 1:39:40
  12. Finishing the leaves 1:48:48
  13. Adding wafer paper 1:52:51
  14. Adding sugar texture 2:05:42
  15. Arranging the protea and leaves 2:07:43

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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.