Sculpted & Novelty Cakes
Novelty Cake Classes
With Craftsy's online cake decorating classes you'll create show-stopping sculpted cakes. Learn how to build a sturdy shapely structure before adding design details for a realistic finish.
$39.99
Elisa Strauss
Have your handbag and eat it too! Let celebrity cake designer Elisa Strauss teach you to sculpt and decorate an unbelievably realistic ... See more
Student Projects from this class
$24.99
Catherine Ruehle
Rawwr! With Catherine Ruehle's help, learn to design, carve and decorate a fantastic dinosaur cake. You better eat it before it eats you!
$39.99
Mike McCarey
Learn how to sculpt a cake that will turn heads! Cake artist Mike McCarey shares his secrets for constructing and carving a truly sweet caricature.
Cake Decorating Instructors
Meet talented cake decorating instructors from across the world. Find out how they got into the field and what they're working on now.
Confetti Cakes owner and founder Elisa Strauss is a former Ralph Lauren designer turned award-winning cake artist.
Catherine's creative custom cakes, her devotion to organics, and her line of gluten free & vegan products, set her shop apart from the competition from day one.
Richard attended the French Culinary Institute in New York where he discovered his passion for pastries.
Cake Decorating Recipes
Before sculpting, there's baking! Begin by making decadent cakes from buttermilk to vegan chocolate, with these simple free recipes from top cake artists.
Enjoy this Swiss meringue buttercream cake recipe from Craftsy cake decorating instructor, Joshua John Russell.
Mike McCarey shares his recipe for old-fashioned buttermilk cake, the perfect foundation for your cake decorating adventures.
Here is Craftsy cake decorating instructor Lauren Kitchens' very own modeling chocolate recipe, which works for white, light, and dark chocolate!
Sculpted & Novelty Cake Projects
See what your classmates have been busy creating. Explore all sorts of cakes from dinosaurs to dogs. Be sure to congratulate them on their accomplishments!
Sculpted & Novelty Cake Blog Posts
Discover captivating collections of themed-cakes from nautical to 80's to literary and beyond. You'll find the perfect inspiration for any upcoming wedding or birthday.
Princess Cakes Fit for Royalty
Not everyone can be a princess. But it?s possible to eat like one, with a beautiful princess-themed cake! Bustling with ruffles, crowns, sparkles, ...
Unicorn Cakes: Both Magical and Sweet
If you are what you eat, then be magical and sweet! That won?t be hard to do when you?re serving a unicorn themed cake. From prancing pretties to ...
Modern Wedding Cakes: New Classics!
We?re in an age of modern love, so why not celebrate it with a modern wedding cake? The cake decorating on this collection of cakes may not be ...
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