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Mermaid Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

Mermaid birthday parties are all the rage right now and what better way to celebrate than with a super cute mermaid cake? This little beauty is perfect for your special occasion, complete with golden mermaid tail, cartoony eyes, cutesy nose and mouth and the long, beautiful mermaid hair we all wish we had when we were little.

Liz Marek teaches how to create this stunning gravity-defying cake, offering several tips and tricks on how to create hair (a tricky subject for many cake decorators) and how to get an awesome water effect on the cake board.

1:07:40 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to create a cut stylized mermaid cake dipping out of the water
  • How to make a gravity-defying cake structure
  • Learn how to sculpt a posable mermaid tail
  • How to make cute styled eyes, nose and mouth
  • Liz Marek's tips and tricks for making beautiful hair easily

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making the cake structure 0:10
  2. Making the bottom of chin 1:01
  3. Assembling cake structure 2:34
  4. Stacking the cakes 8:07
  5. Carving the head 9:48
  6. Making the top of head 12:32
  7. Crumbcoating the head 13:31
  8. Stacking the tail 14:14
  9. Carving the tail 15:34
  10. Making the tail tip 16:55
  11. Adding the nose 18:33
  12. Building up the shoulders 20:11
  13. Making the tail flipper 22:17
  14. Making skin-toned fondant 25:48
  15. Smoothing out the body 26:32
  16. Creating the eyes 32:10
  17. Adding the eyebrows 40:34
  18. Adding the mouth 41:32
  19. Paneling the tail in fondant 43:32
  20. Finishing the tail fins 47:32
  21. Painting the scales 49:43
  22. Adding the hair 50:47
  23. Making the water 1:00:34
  24. Adding the arms 1:04:47

Sculpted Mermaid Cake Tutorial

I grew up watching The Little Mermaid and loved it. It was my favorite Disney movie by far. Little did I know at the time, mermaids would become a trend, far into the future with no end in sight. Mermaids are EVERYWHERE right now, on the toy shelves, in the fashion department (I can't tell you how many "I am a mermaid" shirts I've seen lately) and online in my facebook feed every time I scroll through.

What better way to meet the trend than with a cutesy birthday cake?!

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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.