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Published on February 15, 2023 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Strawberry Summer Cake Tutorial

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Skill level: Intermediate

Guest instructor Jennifer Reese is back again for a summer-styled strawberry patch cake! In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a wide variety of looks and textures, from realistic strawberry patch vines, to picket fence patterns, a pink and white gingham thatch, a edible fabric ribbon with a bow and a strawberry carton with real strawberries.

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

2:19:40 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to make a strawberry-inspired summer cake
  • How to create picket fences, gingham thatch, and an edible fabric with bow
  • Learn how to create realistic strawberry vines, a strawberry carton and butterfly

Cake sculpted to look like strawberries

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making The Strawberry Mold 1:21
  2. Making The Chocolate Strawberries 19:51
  3. Making The Strawberry Butterfly 26:17
  4. Making The Carton Shape 27:12
  5. Paneling The Carton 38:19
  6. Making The Cloud Tier 49:46
  7. Making The Gingham Design 54:35
  8. Adding The Fence 56:10
  9. Making The Wafer Paper Grass 1:00:20
  10. Coloring The Gum Paste 1:02:42
  11. Making The Leaf Butterfly 1:05:13
  12. Detailing The Leaf Butterfly 1:11:25
  13. Making The Calyx 1:14:26
  14. Making The Leaves 1:29:37
  15. Making The Vines 1:40:54
  16. Making The Burlap Bow 1:44:53
  17. Adding The Burlap Bow 2:05:40
  18. Adding The Final Decorations 2:13:24

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Strawberry Cake 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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