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Welcome to Sugar Geek University! I’m Liz Marek, an award-winning cake artist, and I created this online cake decorating school to help you build your skills, grow your confidence, and create cakes you’re truly proud of. Inside, you’ll find hundreds of step-by-step tutorials and courses covering everything from baking and decorating basics to sculpted cakes, realistic sugar art, gravity-defying designs, and the professional techniques I’ve learned throughout my career. Whether you’re decorating your very first cake or ready to take your work to the next level, there’s always something new to learn. Scroll down, choose a class that inspires you, and let’s start creating!
PICK YOUR PATH
Animals and characters, faces and busts, showpieces, and the structure that holds them up.
Cakes that look like anything but cake. Burgers, pizza, beer, blackberries. The biggest free section on the site.
Tiers that survive the car, the warm room and four hours on a table, plus the finishes people photograph.
Birthdays, showers and holidays, grouped by the kind of cake you have been asked to make.
Cakes that float, hang, tilt and spin. The structure is the tutorial — armature first, decoration second.
Gumpaste, wafer paper and bean paste. The flowers that make a plain cake look expensive — and they keep for years.
Figures, animals, vehicles and faces to sit on top. Model them ahead and the cake underneath can be as simple as you like.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Every path opens with tutorials that are free to watch, no account needed. They are there so you can see how I teach before you commit to anything.
If you have never decorated a cake before, start with How to Decorate Your First Cake. Eighteen minutes, every step from tools and baking to trimming, frosting with sharp edges and decorating.
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What other members say
"I love being a Sugar Geek! I own a storefront and learn something everyday, not only from Liz but particularly from the community group. Our customers are really interested in getting the cakes they see on Pinterest and Sugar Geek Show is my best resource for learning more advanced techniques and using new products. New options, isomalt, CakeLace, wafer paper, etc. gives me a much larger arsenal of tricks up my sleeve to offer our clients. I find that every week we get at least 1 or 2 cake orders that require me to ‘teach’ my staff a new technique I have learned on Sugar Geek University." - Tina Yuhl
"I had to budget when first signing up for Sugar Geek Show, but honestly though, it’s such an asset to my training and I’ve grown so much as a result that it’s a priority to me now. I’ve really grown as a cake decorator thanks to Sugar Geek Show. The tutorials are current and each tutorial always has multiple techniques being taught so I feel like I get so much from 1 video. The Elite member gifts are also amazing because it gvies me an opportunity to try out new products that I might have heard about previously. I landed a job as a pastry chef for a restaurant thanks to my cake decorating portfolio and I am incredibly grateful for all the hard work that goes into these tutorials. It really helped me up my cake game and I owe a lot of where I am in my career to that." - Brittani M. Diehl
"I didn’t know if I would use any of the tutorials on Sugar Geek Show, so I wasn’t sure about signing up at first. Once I did, I found content that helped me see industry trends and helped me with sculpting food as well as structures. I needed motivation and to know what people were ordering. I was not confident in my structure building. The tutorials have sparked my creativity and encouraged me to try new techniques." - Jennifer Lane Vasquez
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Membership opens the whole library — hundreds of full-length tutorials, the recipes and structure behind them, and something new from me every month. $14.99 a month, or $140 a year. You can switch or cancel any time from your account.