Today we’re featuring a roundup of our BEST Free Cake Decorating Video Tutorials! We actually have lots of favorites from our free cake tutorials section, but these have been our most popular!

If you’ve been following our site for a while, you know that we have a free cake tutorials section as well as a cake decorating video tutorial section for our members.

 

If you are new to cake decorating, or are interested in learning some quick and easy cake techniques, our free cake tutorials section is a great place to start. We’ve made lots of fun and creative free cake tutorials over the years, which can be found here on our site in our Free Cake Video Tutorials section (a sub-category of our Free Tutorials section) as well as on our YouTube Page!

If you’re interested in having full access to every cake video tutorial that we’ve made, we would LOVE to have you as a member of our site! We’ve made hundreds of cake decorating video tutorials for our members over the years!

Memberships are only $30/year and will give you to hundreds of cake decorating video tutorials for all skill levels. You can find all of the details here: Joining information for My Cake School: Learn Cake Decorating Online

 

Here’s a look at some of our favorite free cake video tutorials!

 

First, our candy bar drip cake is one of my favorites because of the dramatic chocolate candy-covered top tier! This would be such a cute cake for chocolate lovers as a single tier, but if the occasion calls for a two-tiered cake, I just love pairing it with a dramatic chocolate drip!! Find out how to make this “WOW” cake here!  Candy Bar Drip Cake- Free Cake Video Tutorial

 

 

In this free cake video tutorial, learn how to make gorgeous marbled buttercream! This easy and elegant buttercream technique is perfect for so many occasions from birthdays to weddings! Find the tutorial here!: How to Make Marbled Buttercream

 

 

 

 

 

The beautiful buttercream camellias from our next free cake tutorial are a favorite of ours as well as the elegant piping around the sides! In this video tutorial, we’ll show you how to easily create this lovely cake design which could be used as inspiration for all sorts of cake designs from baby showers and birthdays to weddings! Find the free video here: Buttercream Camellias and Elegant Piping for Cakes- A Free Video Tutorial

 

 

 

Buttercream striped cakes are everywhere these days, and in this free cake tutorial, I’ll show you how to create the look simply and easily with a cake comb! How to Make Buttercream Stripes on Cakes!

 

 

 

 

 

Next, unicorns continue to be hugely popular for birthday cakes and we just love this sweet and simple Unicorn Cake Topper Video Tutorial!

Cake toppers can instantly transform and ordinary cake into something really special, and in this case, our sweet unicorn is the PERFECT way to add cuteness and color to our Homemade Funfetti Cake!! We just loved creating this tutorial, and hope you enjoy it too!

 

This next free cake decorating video tutorial was SO much fun and couldn’t be easier to make! We’ve all seen the popular Kit Kat Cakes which feature tiers wrapped in vertically placed Kit Kats. Well, this is a spin on that idea but with the mini-Kit Kats that you can now find in both chocolate and white chocolate flavors.

I love the checkerboard pattern and I also love how simple the design is to make! This cake is perfect for the chocolate lovers in your life! You can watch the whole process here!: How to Make a Kit Kat Checkerboard Cake

 

 

Next is our beautiful Buttercream Bridal Shower Cake which features a ruffled wedding dress. This free cake video tutorial will show you how to create a sweet wedding dress cake design with elegant ruffles. This cake is such a simple cake design, and one that could easily recreated on cakes of any size!

 

 

I love rainbow cakes, and this cute puffed buttercream rainbow cake is one of our favorites! In this free cake video, you’ll learn how to create this easy buttercream pattern, as well as a rainbow cake topper!

This would make such a cute birthday cake as well as baby shower cake! Hop over to our free cake tutorial to see!: Puffed Rainbow Cake Video Tutorial

 

 

This Sweet Girl on a Swing Cake is another of our favorite free cake video tutorials! This is such a cute and simple design, and would be perfect for a little girl’s birthday cake or baby shower! Here’s a link!: Sweet Girl on a Swing- A Free Cake Video Tutorial

 

 

This CUTE teddy bear cake would also make an adorable birthday cake as well as baby shower cake idea! There’s just something about teddy bear themed cakes that makes me smile, and her sweet buttercream ruffled dress is my favorite part!  Hop over to see this fun free cake video! Sweet Teddy Bear Cake- Free Cake Tutorial

 

 

Piping buttercream flowers is one of my favorite things, and these buttercream ranunculus cupcakes are not only gorgeous, but surprisingly easy to make!  We created a beautiful bouquet of buttercream ranunculus cupcakes in this lovely cupcake-cake video tutorial! Hop over to see!: Buttercream Ranunculus Cupcakes- A Free Cupcake Video Tutorial

 

 

Next is one of our favorite baby shower cakes, and it is SO easy to make! This Sweet Baby in a Hammock cake design is perfect for any level of cake decorating, and it makes the perfect baby shower cake. Hop over for the quick video tutorial! Sweet Baby in a Hammock Cake Video

 

 

I love buttercream piping techniques and this Loopy Buttercream Piping cake design is so simple to create but also so elegant!

This is one of our favorite simple piping techniques, and it would be beautiful for cakes of all sorts of occasions from birthday cakes to shower cakes and even wedding cakes! Find the free tutorial here: Easy and Elegant Loopy Buttercream Piping- Free Cake Video Tutorial

 

 

I love the simplicity of this sweet Bunny Cake! This is one of our favorites, and a perfect cake design for young birthdays as well as baby showers and Easter gatherings! Find out how we made it here: Sweet and Simple Bunny Cake- Free Cake Video

 

 

Our cake video tutorial featuring Cascading Rosettes of Buttercream is a technique that every cake decorator should know because it is SO easy yet so elegant!

Use this simple piping technique for everything from baby showers and birthday cakes to wedding cakes! This technique is suitable for any skill level of cake decorating. Enjoy the video! Cascading Rosettes of Buttercream- A Free Cake Video Tutorial

 

 

 

I can never resist an excuse to make a cute bunny cake! We’ve made several over the years, and this is one of our favorites! I love the soft colors as well as the texture of the grass-covered tier.

Bunny cakes are so cute for Easter, but also for baby showers and young birthdays! Find our free cake video tutorial here: Cute Bunny Cake- A free cake decorating video tutorial

 

 

This next cake is a recent favorite that we created for Christmas and winter, but with a few changes, it would work perfectly for young birthday cakes as well as for your truck-loving family and friends!

I love simple cut-out cake toppers like this one, and the truck adds so much character to our cake! You can easily swap out the tree in the bed of the truck for birthday presents or whatever suits the birthday boy or girl of honor!  Find the free cake video here:  Red Truck Cake Topper- Free Video Tutorial

 

 

 

We made this cute monster cake last Halloween but it would work for young birthdays no matter what time of year for a funny monster party theme! I don’t do scary, and so these silly pretzel monsters are about as crazy as it gets in our kitchen, haha.

What I love most about this easy cake design is that there’s no wrong way to make a monster- just attach sprinkles and eyeballs to your hear’s content- anything goes!!  Easy Pretzel Monster Cake Design- Free Cake Video

 

 

All you need is Love! This Marbled Chocolate Panel Cake was created around Valentine’s Day but the technique is perfect for so many occasions, and the design options are endless! Learn how to create these dramatic, colorful panels in our free cake video! Marbled Chocolate Panel Cake

 

 

Owl Love You Forever! I love owl themed cakes, and this may just be my favorite so far! Learn how to make this sweet Owl Cake in our free video tutorial- the simple owl cut-outs are really easy to make, and couldn’t be cuter! This cake would be perfect for young birthdays, baby showers, Valentine’s Day, and more! Find it here: Owl Love You Forever- Free Cake Video Tutorial 

 

 

 

 

Finally, before you can decorate the cake, you have to bake it! In this free cake video, we’ll take you through the entire process of preparing recipe, settling the cake, crumb coating, and decorating! In other words, we’ll show you How to Make a Cake from Start to Finish!

This is a great video tutorial for beginning bakers and cake decorators as well as more experience bakers who may want to compare notes ;0) We hope that you enjoy it!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed this little roundup! We have lots more free videos in our Free Tutorials section! In addition, you’ll find many step by step blog tutorials also!

We hope that you’ll find a cake project that you’d love to try! If you do, please leave a comment or photo below! For our full collection of FAVORITE cake and frosting recipes, don’t miss our Cake Recipes Section. 

Happy Caking! xoxo