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Woodland Baby Shower Cake Tutorial

Skill level: Intermediate

Learn how to create this wonderful woodland animal baby shower cake! Liz Marek breaks down all the steps in the process of making each tier, including how to make the bear, owl and deer's details, how to create the cake topper ears and how to trim and arrange the foliage.

40:20 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to make a Woodland-themed baby shower cake
  • Learn how to easily sculpt and detail the bear, owl and deer faces
  • How to trim and arrange artificial foliage and how to work with cake dummies

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Covering The Bottom Tier In Fondant0:37
  2. Making The Bear Ears 6:34
  3. Painting The Bear Tier 7:24
  4. Adding The Bear Ears 9:39
  5. Making The Bear's Face 11:01
  6. Covering The Owl Tier In Fondant 14:00
  7. Making The Owl Ears And Face 14:49
  8. Decorating The Owl Tier 18:43
  9. Making The Deer Ears 21:04
  10. Decorating The Deer Layer 22:56
  11. Making & Adding The Antlers 29:03
  12. Making The Spacer 30:51
  13. Stacking & Decorating 36:28
  14. Finishing Touches 38:36

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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.