Painted Portrait Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn to create a beautiful birthday cake with a hand-painted portrait using Karen Portaleo's new Edible Artist oil paints. You will learn how to make this elaborate cake, with hand-painted golden details scrollwork flourishes and along with the gravity-defying flower hoop. This flower hoop is an awesome show-stopping piece that's sure to please party goers.

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

52:39 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

• How to paint a portrait onto a cake using edible oil paints
• Learn how to add scrollwork details to a cake
• How to create a gravity-defying floral hoop and how to arrange flowers on it

Tutorial Chapters

1. Overview of the structure 0:29
2. Attaching board “feet” 4:39
3. Attaching the hoop 9:34
4. Stacking the cakes 17:12
5. Adding the center circle 19:52
6. The portrait outline 24:21
7. Painting the portrait 28:58
8. Making gold details 40:39
9. Preparing the flowers 47:20
10. Decorating the hoop 48:59