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Wonder Woman Tiara Cake

Skill level: Intermediate

You guys know how obsessed I am with Wonder Woman and after I watched the new movie, I knew I had to create a cake inspired by the strong female lead. This tutorial is based off the basics series so if you're wanting to perfect your skills from torting, filling, frosting, covering double barrels and getting sharp edges, just follow the basics series and that leads right into this tutorial.

51:00 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to create a layered tiara, corset and skirt on a tiered cake
  • Learn how to make a crackled cake board
  • How to hand paint a fiery explosion with edible watercolors

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Making Dark Blue Fondant 0:22
  2. Add Skirt Layers 2:39
  3. Painting Gold Details 5:30
  4. Making Dark Red Fondant 8:15
  5. Creating the Corset 9:31
  6. Modeling Chocolate Details 23:44
  7. Gold Accents 32:45
  8. Applying the tiara 34:50
  9. Painting gold accents 40:42
  10. Creating the cake board 41:11
  11. Crackle board technique 45:12
  12. Finishing the edge 49:06

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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.