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Space Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Cakes.... IN SPACE! This tutorial is all about space, and more specifically, our solar system. This birthday cake was a blast to make, featuring a glowing sun, rotating planets, Saturn's rings, hand-painted Earth and moon, isomalt Neptune and Uranus and a massive galaxy cake. Learn to create this cake step-by-step that is sure to wow the space-loving recipient.

1:30:59 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a rotating solar system cake
  • Learn how to make planets 3 different ways: chocolate planets, a cake Jupiter, and isomalt Neptune and Uranus
  • How to make Saturn, a ringed planet
  • Learn how to hand paint and add galaxy details

Tutorial Chapters

  1. The spinning boards 0:46
  2. The sun structure 5:00
  3. Painting the board 10:03
  4. Stacking the cake 10:43
  5. Trimming the cake 12:36
  6. Planet overview 14:36
  7. Jupiter's base 16:39
  8. Saturn's isomalt ring 18:37
  9. Saturn's sphere 26:36
  10. Small chocolate spheres 31:28
  11. Uranus 32:42
  12. Neptune 35:39
  13. Mercury and the moon 37:04
  14. Covering the cake board 43:47
  15. Adding Jupiter 47:45
  16. Assembling Saturn 52:22
  17. Assembling small planets 53:24
  18. Adding the cake 56:33
  19. Frosting Jupiter 58:38
  20. Frosting the main cake 1:02:11
  21. Covering with fondant 1:03:05
  22. Adding Saturn 1:04:41
  23. Painting the main cake 1:08:21
  24. Adding Uranus 1:12:05
  25. Adding Neptune 1:15:12
  26. Adding Saturn's ring 1:16:02
  27. Adding small planets 1:17:00
  28. Covering threaded rod 1:20:53
  29. Painting touchups 1:21:38
  30. Painting small planets 1:24:17
  31. Painting the sun 1:27:03
  32. Painting earth 1:28:20

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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.