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Updated on December 3, 2021 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Sakura Goldfish Cake Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

This tutorial goes under the sea with a beautiful ocean-themed design. Learn how to make a Sakura goldfish cake, featuring a gravity-defying cake structure, edible coral elements, sculpted fish fins that hold their shape, edible shiny fish eyes and a hand-painted pattern, along with a watery reflective cake board.

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

1:19:46 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a realisticly sculpted goldfish cake
  • Learn how to create edible fish fins that flow and hold their shape
  • How to make a shiny reflective cake board that looks like water
  • Learn how to make realistic coral and edible fish eye elements

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making the base 0:39
  2. Creating the structure 8:16
  3. Making the coral structure 16:53
  4. Adding and sculpting cake 22:14
  5. Shaping the cake 25:17
  6. Frosting the cake 30:38
  7. Making rice paper sails 32:06
  8. Adding the fins and tail 40:57
  9. Adding fondant 43:22
  10. Shaping the fish 47:31
  11. Dusting the fish 49:26
  12. Finishing adding fins 51:38
  13. Making the coral 53:18
  14. The eyes 58:30
  15. Painting the fish white 1:00:36
  16. Decorating the board 1:12:33
  17. Painting the fish orange 1:15:51

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Materials List

Fish Board Template

Sakura Goldfish Reference

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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.

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Hi, I'm Liz! I'm a cake artist and recipe developer, and I won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 with a hyperrealistic Santa. I write foolproof recipes that explain why things work, not just how.

I also teach full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted cakes, at Sugar Geek University.

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