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Published on May 1, 2022 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

The Book of Brandon Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

For the book-lovers, this cake tutorial is a total treat! In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an ornate book design, with decorative scrollwork, a cool artistic stencil design, how to make all the subtle details that make this cake really look like a book, how to acheive the book cover overhangs, and how to make the delicious entremet inside.

39:59 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a realistic book cake
  • Learn how to make the book cover, spine of the book, the decorative scroll work and distressed texture

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Overview Of The Entremet 0:39
  2. Cutting Out The Book Cover 4:25
  3. Stacking The Entremet 5:55
  4. Crumb Coating The Entremet 8:06
  5. Adding A Square Buttercream Layer 9:16
  6. Making The Chocolate Side 17:10
  7. Curving The Spine With Buttercream 19:28
  8. Trimming The Side Panels 21:49
  9. Adding The Chocolate Book Cover 23:56
  10. Making The Fondant Details 26:21
  11. Adding Details To The Spine 27:06
  12. Spraying The Cake With Cocoa Butter 31:43
  13. Adding The Gold Title 33:21
  14. Adding The Final Details 35:29

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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.