The birthday of my younger daughter was in lockdown, so we decided to bake and decorate the cake ourselves. I had been waiting for a unicorn cake for a while, so now I decided on it without hesitation.
In this post you will find instructions on how to make all fondant elements for unicorn cake. It turns out that kids not only love to eat fondant decorations, but it’s just as fun to make them.
However, when it comes to baking, I will not pretend that I am a baking specialist. I used recipes from specialized websites, however they are in Polish only 🙁
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Fondant decorations for unicorn cake
Our cake decoration consisted of:
- Horn – instructions on how to do here
- Ears – instructions here on how to do
- Eyes – made in the form of black, thin rollers
- Rainbow mane – made in the form of colored rollers
- Pink flowers – instructions on how to do
As you can see in the photo, it is not a perfect performance, but for the first time it is good enough. Additionally, these got my kids acceptance, so I passed the most difficult test 🙂
Ingredients for fondant decorations
- Fondant in many colors. Small amounts of mass are enough for decoration, packaging of 100g is max. The best way for the beginners is to buy ready made fondant.
- Fondant to cover the cake. Unfortunately, I had to skip this stage because I had too little white fondant.
- Golden food spray – to paint the horn.
- Skewer stick
- Toothpicks
- Roller
- Knife
How to make fondant unicorn horn?
Ingredients
To make the horn you need:
- yellow or white fondant (100g)
- skewer stick
- food golden spray
To make the unicorn horn you need to:
- knead the fondant to make it plastic
- form a roller so that it is thin at one end and thick at the other
- wind the sugar mass onto a stick
- let dry and harden
- spray with gold paint
Inspiration comes from Pinterest.
How to make fondant unicorn ears?
Ingredients
To make the ears you need:
- white and pink fondant
- toothpicks
- heart-shaped cookie cutter
- knife
- roller
To make unicorn ears:
- knead the fondant to make it plastic
- roll the fondant to a thickness of 3-4 mm
- cut out 2 hearts out of the white fondant using the cookie cutter
- out of pink fondant cut out a circle and cut it in half
- put the pink semicircles on the white hearts (you can gently stick with water or roll out to make the layers stick together)
- knead at the bottom and stick toothpick
Inspiration comes from Pinterest.
Easy way to make fondant flowers
Ingredients
To make the ears you need:
- pink fondant
- knife
- roller
- round cookie cutter or small glass
To make flowers:
- knead the fondant to make it plastic
- roll the fondant to a thickness of 3 mm
- cut 2 circles and cut each into 4 parts
- fold a quarter circle with an overlap in one line
- roll up
- cut in half
- part the flower petals
Inspiration comes from Pinterest.
Super tasty strawberry cake is the perfect base for a unicorn cake
My cake consists of 3 layers: sponge cake, strawberry cream and strawberry jelly. In my opinion, the jelly is a must-have, because kids love it 🙂 I used white chocolate ganache to cover the cake. Each recipe I used is available in Polish only.
Unicorn cake
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Nothing gives more satisfaction than doing something yourself. I haven’t even thought about DIY as my hobby, I’ve just done different “projects” when it was needed. Sometimes it’s a disguise for the Masquerade Party in kindergarten. Another time, cutting out the pumpkin and baking the witch’s fingers for Haloween. Or simply organizing holiday souvenirs. Now I decided to share my realizations with you. Let’s go it together!
