Unicorn Cake

Planning a unicorn birthday party? Well, you’ll need a unicorn cake then! So let me show you how to make a beautiful unicorn cake! It’s actually not very hard. You can decorate any tall cake or use my simple sponge cake and vanilla chantilly cream layer cake recipe that I’ll post at the bottom.

Ingredients you’ll need

If I am making a cake for little kidsI usually use whipped cream to decorate it. It’s not as pretty as buttercream but kids like it better!

You could use this exact decorating technic with buttercream if you prefer, no problem at all!

If you want to make may cake recipe you’ll need:

• Eggs
• Sugar
• Flour
• Gel food colouring

For the decorating

• Whipping Cream
• Sugar
• Vanilla extract
• Gel food colouring

• White fondant
• Edible gold powder
• Vodka (or any clear extract to mix with the gold powder)

Make the fondant decorations for the unicorn cake

If you can, do this part 48-24h before decorating the cake so the fondant has time to set.

Make the horn

Take two balls of fondant and roll them into long snakes, one side bigger then the other.

Place the two snakes side by side and twist together to for a long spiral.

Cut the base so the unicorn horn has the desired length.

Brush some water into a long lollipop stick or a long skewer (so the fondant will stick to it), and push through the horn all the way to the edge. Careful not to go through the fondant, you don’t want to see the skewer!

Make the unicorn ears

Using two smaller balls of fondant make the ears.

Brush some water into a lollipop stick or a skewer (so the fondant will stick to it), and push through each ear.

Make the eyes

Using two tiny balls of fondant, make two little snakes and fold them into little unicorn eyes.

Make it shiny!

In a small bowl, mix a tsp of edible gold powder with a tsp of vodka or any clear extract.

Using a paint brush, paint the eyes, the horn and the inside of the ears.

Let set all the fondant decorations 24 to 48h.

Bake the unicorn cake

Make a 12 eggs sponge cake. I know it seems like a lot but you want this cake to be tall. It’s much nicer once it’s decorated. So for 12 eggs you’ll need 360g of flour and 360g of sugar. Find the recipe to make the perfect sponge cake here.

I prefer to bake to make each cake separately so I bake 4 times 3 eggs sponge cakes but it’s up to you.

For each layer, separate the batter in 3 and add colour. I chose to use pink, purple and light blue but you can choose whatever your kids want!

Scoop a little bit of each colour in the cake pan. Using a tooth pick or a knife slightly mix the batter.

Bake each cake and allow to cool down completely.

Cut the top of each cake to make them flat.

Make the whipped Cream

Beat some whipping cream with sugar and vanilla extract until soft peaks are formed.

Take 3 cups out and using gel food colouring, make 3 different coloured whipped cream. I used pink, purple and light blue but you can use whatever you feel like.

Place each colour whipped cream in a piping bag with a star tip and refrigerate your 3 piping bags until you are ready to decorate your unicorn cake.

Find all my tips to make the perfect whipped cream here!

Decorate the unicorn cake

Place the first layer on a decorating turn table then brush with vanilla syrup.

Scoop some vanilla whipped cream and spread around.

Repeat for all 4 layers of cake.

Cover the all cake with a thin layer of whipped cream and refrigerate for 1h or freeze for 20 minutes.

Cover with a thick layer of whipped cream and scrape the top and the side of the cake to make it perfectly smooth.

Using a knife or a tooth pick, draw lines to delimitate the unicorn mane.

Start with a big rosette where the forehead of the unicorn should be and then make a different sizes rosettes all around where the mane should be. Repeat with all 3 colours until the all unicorn mane is made of rosettes.

Place the eyes on each side of the mane. Gently press them into the whipped cream.

Place the horn on top of the cake and the ears on each side.

And voila! The perfect unicorn cake for the perfect unicorn birthday party!

If you want to turns yourself and your kids to unicorns in a few minutes, check out this DIY unicorn headband!