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Sweet Magnolia Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

This month's guest instructor is the one-and-only Sara Weber of Sara's Sweets in Austin, Texas.

Sara brings us a dosey of a cake design, complete with saucer magnolias, rustic wooden fence planks, a bee-utiful bee bas relief design and a botanical watercolor flower illustration tying several techniques into one seamless cake.

2:07:01 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make magnolia sugar flowers, leaves and floral arrangements
  • Learn how to create a rustic wooden plank design that mimics a fence
  • Sara's technique to transfer a botanical flower illustration onto a cake tier
  • How to create a bas relief design using several different molds

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making the magnolia centers 1:59
  2. Making the stamens 4:30
  3. Dusting the center 7:48
  4. Adding pollen 8:22
  5. Making the buds 11:27
  6. Making Magnolia petals 17:41
  7. Making Magnolia leaves 25:59
  8. Dusting the petals 33:55
  9. Steaming the petals 42:21
  10. Dusting the leaves 45:07
  11. Dipping the leaves 47:20
  12. Dusting the buds 49:55
  13. Flower assembly 52:15
  14. Assembling the leaves 57:32
  15. Making the wooden planks 59:12
  16. Creating the wood grain 1:08:18
  17. Coloring the wood 1:10:37
  18. Attaching planks to cake tier 1:13:36
  19. Transfer images to cake tier 1:18:24
  20. Painting watercolor flowers 1:22:43
  21. Making the bee bas relief 1:34:16
  22. Tips for working with bas relief 1:40:44
  23. Applying bas relief to cake tier 1:44:06
  24. Assembling the tiers 1:46:48
  25. Bringing bas relief down 1:50:32
  26. Watercolor wash 1:52:36
  27. Adding the final shine 1:55:15
  28. Adding flowers 1:56:16
  29. Adding the bees 1:59:52
  30. Adding moss 2:01:40

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist, sweet and savory recipe developer, and the founder of Sugar Geek Show, where she teaches cooking, baking and cake decorating through detailed tutorials, food science explanations, and kitchen-tested recipes. She has been creating recipes and teaching baking techniques since 2008, helping bakers of all skill levels gain the confidence to make professional-quality desserts at home.

Liz is known for breaking down complex cooking and baking concepts into simple, approachable methods. Her work focuses on helping people understand not just how a recipe works, but why it works. Through Sugar Geek Show, she shares step-by-step recipes, cake decorating tutorials, and practical baking guides designed to make professional techniques accessible to everyone.

Over the years, Liz has taught thousands of students through online tutorials, classes, and educational content focused on real kitchen results. Her recipes are carefully tested and written to help people succeed the first time they make them.

When she’s not developing recipes or teaching baking techniques, Liz also hosts curated travel experiences for women through her travel brand Soul Sisters.

You can find Liz’s latest recipes, baking tutorials, and food science tips at Sugar Geek Show.