Looking for online cake decorating classes that actually help you improve? At Sugar Geek University, I teach you the same award-winning techniques I've used throughout my career, broken down into clear, step-by-step lessons you can follow at your own pace. Whether you're learning the basics or ready to tackle advanced designs, I'll help you build the skills and confidence to create cakes you're genuinely proud of.
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What you can make
Every one of these is a full step-by-step tutorial inside Sugar Geek University and this is just a small sample of what I have for you to start learning.
What's inside
Over 170 step-by-step tutorials, grouped by the kind of cake you want to make. Start wherever you like - every path opens with tutorials that are free to watch, no account needed.
- Sculpted Cakes. Animals and characters, faces and busts, showpieces, and the structure that holds them up. From your first sea turtle to a Princess Mononoke showpiece.
- Realistic Cakes. Burgers, pizza, beer, blackberries. The ones people refuse to believe are cake.
- Wedding Cakes. Tiers that survive the car, the warm room and four hours on a table - plus the finishes people photograph.
- Celebration Cakes. Birthdays, showers and holidays, grouped by the kind of cake you have been asked to make.
- Full tutorials, not clips. Most run 45 to 90 minutes, start to finish, nothing skipped.
- Recipes and structure that hold up. The batters, fillings and internal supports I actually use.
- Something new every month. A full tutorial, a behind-the-scenes, a short technique video or a photo tutorial.
- Browse every tutorial A to Z. The complete list of titles, free and members only, in alphabetical order.
The library also covers sugar flowers, cookies, chocolate and sugarwork, with more paths going up as I organize them.
Who is teaching you
Hi, I'm Liz Marek. I have been teaching cake decorating since 2008, and every technique on this page is one I use on camera.
I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa, and I have competed on Food Network's Halloween Wars, Super Mega Cakes, Duff Till Dawn and Ridiculous Cakes. In 2022 I was inducted into the I.C.E.S. Hall of Fame, and Cake Masters Magazine named me one of the Top 10 Cake Artists in the USA.
None of that is a different skill set from what you are about to learn.
Join
Yearly, $140
Saves you $39.88, about two and a half months free. Everything in the membership, billed once a year.
Monthly, $14.99
Same access, month to month. Cancel any time.
Both include the full tutorial library and ad-free browsing on sugargeekshow.com. Cancel any time from your account, no long-term commitment.
Questions people actually ask about our online cake decorating classes
Am I good enough to start?
If you can bake a cake and hold a knife, yes. The free lessons start with a sea turtle that is mostly carving. Watch one before you pay anything.
How much time does this take?
Give yourself a weekend per cake. There is no schedule and nothing expires.
What equipment do I need?
Every tutorial lists its materials up front. The early ones need a serrated knife, a turntable, and fondant or modeling chocolate. Structure and molds come later, when you need them.
What if I fall behind?
There is nothing to fall behind on. Nothing unlocks on a schedule, nothing disappears, and the whole library is there the day you join.
Do I get new tutorials, or just the back catalogue?
Both. The whole library is yours the day you join, and I add something new every month: a full tutorial, a behind-the-scenes, a short technique video, or a photo tutorial.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from your account. Yearly and monthly subscriptions can be canceled at any time.
Start with the tutorials that are free to watch. If you like how I teach, the rest is waiting.