Updated on September 30, 2026 by Liz Marek · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

Easy Crackled Fondant Tutorial

Skill level: Easy

Once upon a time, a long long time ago (years) I tried to crack (pun intended) the crackled paint look!

I tried white food color over piping gel, confectioners glaze, layering fondant etc then one day while experimenting for a TOTALLY different effect, I accidentally discovered this crackled technique! So very easy and fun!

4:09 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

How to make an easy crackled fondant technique

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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.

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Aymie N says

September 27, 2021 at 8:51 am

So I turned volume up and listened to your video and heard that the spots are from "not torching". I was careful and torched every part of the fondant but still had spots. I did it again though and torched for much longer, and it worked so much better! I think your torch is just WAY stronger than mine is. I really had to hold it over each spot. But it worked and thought I would update in case anyone else has this issue. Thanks again!

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