You've also caught the unicorn fever and you find the cute mythical creature with the horn in the middle of the forehead simply irresistible? Maybe your daughter is simply overwhelmed by the fairytale figure and is eagerly collecting all sorts of accessories that evoke associations with unicorns and have the delicate pastel colors of the fantasy creature? If you are looking for ideas for a magical and magical looking cake, then you have come to the right place. Whether for a children's birthday, for another special occasion or perhaps simply if you are in the mood for a bit of glitter and subtle, cheerful colors, a unicorn cake is an excellent choice. Be inspired by our picture gallery and find delicious recipes and simple instructions below.
Rainbow cake with buttercream and fondant figure
Almost every little girl wants onethemed partycelebrate with the pretty unicorns. A colorful unicorn cake is the ultimate birthday cake for girls. But it's no secret that there are not only little unicorn fans, but also big ones who find the unicorn fantastic. A unicorn themed cake looks a bit complicated at first glance, but it isn't at all. The following recipes and ideas will convince you, because there are numerous ways to stay true to the unicorn theme and transform the birthday party buffet or coffee table into an imaginative unicorn wonderland.
Anyone who is already in the process of making a tasty and adorable looking unicorn cake is spoiled for choice, as this delicacy can be made with one or more tiers, round or square, with buttercream or fondant. The unicorn figure can be designed in two or three dimensions. So you have the opportunity to follow your creative imagination and create a cake according to your own ideas. You can use any favorite recipe for the cake base. If you prefer buttercream for your confectionery masterpieces or have no experience with fondant, you can fill the unicorn cake with buttercream and cover it with cream in different colors.
A rainbow cake with a unicorn would be an excellent combination and beautiful explosion of color that will attract everyone's attention. This gives you the opportunity to make the cake bases in the colors of the rainbow or to embellish the outside of the cake. Once you have prepared the buttercream for the filling and coating, you can divide it depending on the size of the cake and color each one with a different food coloring. Spread some cream on the cake base and place the next cake base on top. Now you can coat the outside of the birthday cake with layers of colored cream and carefully smooth it out.
If you're looking for decorating ideas for a unicorn cake for beginners, fondant is an excellent way to effortlessly create a cute cake topper. Print out a unicorn template and cut out the individual parts with a cutter. You can then transfer this onto white and colored rolled fondant and use the stencil to put together a pretty unicorn. If you already have the magical horn on your forehead and the eyes ready, you can devote yourself to the magnificent mane. To do this, use the piping bag to pipe florets in different sizes and colors and finish off the colorful beauty with golden sugar pearls.
Unicorn cake recipe with fondant
Another possibility would be oneTorte with Fondantclose. With a little craftsmanship and sensitivity, even inexperienced people can make such an elegant cake themselves. We have selected a recipe for you for which you need the following ingredients:
Dough:
- 4 Owner
- 120g sugar
- 60 g Flour
- 60 g cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
Buttercream:
- 400 g Coconut fat
- 300g powdered sugar
- 4 egg whites
Unicorn cake decoration:
- Buttercream (half the amount of products)
- 800g white fondant
- 25g black fondant
- Food coloring in colors of your choice (red, blue, pink, purple)
- 2 small springform pans (diameter 15 cm)
- Paint brush
- Shish kebab skewer and toothpicks
- Piping bags and nozzles
Instructions
For the cake bases, first separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until foamy. Add sugar and continue stirring. Then add the egg yolks one at a time. Mix the dry ingredients and fold in carefully. Grease springform pans and divide the mixture. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes. Then let the cake bases cool and loosen the edges. Melt the coconut oil for the buttercream and let it cool until it is lukewarm. Now briefly mix the sugar with the egg white and let the mixture warm in a water bath until the sugar dissolves. Then beat into a stiff cream and stir in the coconut oil. Put the buttercream in the fridge.
To make your cake look as similar as possible to the cute fantasy creature, you can make the horn and ears out of fondant. Roll out a third of the white fondant and cut out two ears and two slightly smaller inner ears. Stick them together with water and shape them. Moisten the wooden horn skewer with water and shape the fondant into a roll with one end thinner than the other (the shape of a cone). Now you can wrap the roll around the kebab skewer, starting from the thinner side. If you want, you can dye the ears and horn. Also put the ears on toothpicks.
Form two arches from the black fondant to serve as eyelashes. Now you can cut the cake layers in half lengthways, spread them with buttercream and finish the unicorn cake. Roll out the fondant and cover the cake with it. Attach the eyelashes, insert the horn in the middle and the ears to the sides of the cake into the cake. In the next step, color the buttercream for the unicorn cake decoration and fill it into piping bags. Using different nozzles, pipe the cream onto the top, back and sides for the colored mane.
Conjure up imaginative cake decorations
When decorating, you can let your creativity run wild and create a real eye-catcher. If the unicorn cake is intended for a children's birthday party, you can make the horn from an ice cream cone instead of fondant. And so that all the guests of honor benefit from it, you can make several of them at the same time. To do this, you have to spread buttercream on the ice cream cones and then roll them in colorful sugar sprinkles or confetti. The waffles have the perfect horn shape for your unicorn motif cake and give the dessert an additional color kick. If the homemade cake is a surprise for an elegant lady, you can also make the mane out of real flowers.
There is nothing unusual about the fact that adults also find unicorns great and somehow magical. A unicorn cake doesn't necessarily have to be white or designed in rainbow colors. Chocolate lovers will love a chocolate unicorn cake, right? For example, you can create a unicorn decoration for the cake using homemade unicorn-shaped cookies. Certainly an original opportunity to show your love and wish someone happiness with the figure of the purest, magical animal. The mythological creature, known in many cultures, symbolizes love, purity and freedom.
The more colorful, the more fascinating the birthday cake is for the adolescents. Your child will be overwhelmed at the sight of such a colorful cake and even more so when the cake is cut open and a Smarties surprise emerges from the inside. If you want, you can model the unicorn out of white fondant for the unicorn motif cake this time. The birthday child will certainly be happy about a rainbow on the cake. To do this, form thin rolls of fondant in rainbow colors and wrap them one after the other around a glass. This gives them the typical rainbow shape. Then use icing as glue to stick each strand of fondant together. Finally, insert wooden skewers into the rainbow and let it dry.
Einhorn Muffins
For a child's birthday or a special event, you can conjure up beautiful mini versions of the unicorn cake that will undoubtedly amaze guests young and old. The unicorn muffins are in no way inferior to the motif cake and can simply be picked up whenever you feel like something sweet. Bake the desired amount of muffins as usual and prepare a delicious cream topping, which you color in rainbow colors or decorate with colorful sugar sprinkles. Make the ears and horn as described above and place them on each cupcake. The effort and time you put into preparing them is definitely worth it because the unicorn cupcakes look almost too pretty to eat.
Unicorn cake made from cupcakes – instructions
You can also create an impressive and original unicorn cake from several muffins and cream. The instructions for this are very simple. For this attractive version of the unicorn cake you need muffins and buttercream or any other frosting. The number of muffins can vary depending on whether you want to recreate a whole unicorn figure or just the unicorn head. You will need around 25-30 muffins for the head and around 40-45 for the figure. First, place the cooled muffins together on a non-slip surface in the desired shape. Prepare the cream. For example, you can get a fluffy and delicious topping from 300 g of powdered sugar, 300 g of cream cheese, 400 g of mascarpone, 500 g of butter and the pulp of a vanilla pod.
Then distribute the cream among the muffins using an ice cream scoop, leaving a third of the cream remaining. You will need these later for the mane. Spread the buttercream evenly and model the head, mouth and nostrils as desired. Now you can devote yourself to the unicorn cake decoration and color the remaining cream in blue, turquoise, pink and purple. Spray the mane in several layers. This gives the unicorn a lush and beautiful mane. Paint the eye or eyelashes with chocolate or make them from fontant paste. All you have to do is make the horn and ears and the muffin cake is ready! If desired, you can sprinkle colorful beads, stars or glitter powder over it. Now you can pull the cupcakes apart and enjoy them!
Make your own vegan cake – recipe and instructions
Of course, if you avoid consuming animal products, you don't have to miss out on a spectacular vegan unicorn cheesecake. We have selected a great recipe for you for a vegan, gluten-free, four-layer unicorn cheesecake that can be made without baking. The magical onevegan dessertlooks mesmerizing with its adorable colors that create the blackberry, raspberry, strawberry and coconut cream layers.
Ingredients:
For the cake base:
- 250 g dates, pitted
- 220 g Hafer
- 2 tsp maple syrup
- 1/2 TL Vanilleextrakt
- pinch of salt
For the blackberry layer:
- 200 g chashew nuts, soaked
- 200g blackberries
- 90 g Coconut beer
- 100 g maple syrup
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
For the raspberry layer:
- same ingredients as for the blackberry layer, only use raspberries here
For the strawberry layer:
- same ingredients as for the blackberry layer, only use strawberries here
- Juice of half a lemon
- 50 g Coconut cream
For the coconut cream layer:
- 100 g cashew nuts, soaked
- 1 Dose of coconut cream
- 50g coconut oil
- 20 g maple syrup
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
Line a springform pan with baking paper. The ingredients for each of the layers are processed in a food processor into a homogeneous mixture. The cake base is lightly pressed onto the springform pan base and cooled briefly in the refrigerator. The fruit layers are also cooled briefly and then layered in the mold. Before you use the ingredients for the strawberry layer, warm the strawberries with the lemon juice in a pot and mash them. Simmer briefly over low heat. Store the unicorn cheesecake in the freezer for 5-6 hours and let it thaw completely before eating. For the unicorn cake decoration you can use sugar stars, glittering pearls or perhaps gold leaf and transform the vegan cheesecake into a real eye-catcher that is perfect for a party or simply to put you in a good mood.
Colorful cake with cream cheese
If you have a favorite recipe for a quick and easy cream cheese cake, you can easily color it in the typical, pastel colors using food coloring or colored sugar sprinkles and transform it into an enchanting work of art. Create great color gradients according to your taste and carefully stir in the sugar sprinkles with a spatula to create great, flowing color combinations. You can also incorporate colorful sugar sprinkles into the dough base. Furthermore, the variations of this cake are almost endless. You can vary the colors as you wish and depending on the occasion. How about red and green for Christmas or maybe orange and black for Halloween?
Pummeleinhorn cake with figure
Should the unicorn cake not only be beautiful but also funny? Then you can take advantage of a new trend and get a few guaranteed laughs. This refers to the chubby unicorn, which can be depicted in a variety of ways, but is usually intended to give the impression that it has nibbled on the cake and then dozed off on the cake plate when it was fully eaten or on the cake itself. Not only does it sound fun, it looks like it too. In principle, you can also make a Pummeleinhorn cake yourself. You can use the same recipes for this as for the normal unicorn cake. We have already provided a selection above.
The more complicated step is the Pummeleinhorn cake figure. This only really looks effective when it is designed in 3D format. But with a little effort and will, you can do this yourself. The following video can help you, in which everything is shown step by step, so that even beginners can have success and proudly use their chubby unicorn as a cake decoration.
For the Pummeleinhorn cake decoration, as with the normal variants, you need white fondant, as well as fondant in several pastel colors. Pink, green, light blue and yellow are perfect, but you can also choose other shades and color the white fondant as you wish. You will also need a black edible marker, a brush and toothpicks and a few tools to help you shape. If you don't have the tools shown in the video at home, you don't need to buy any extra for this one figure. Instead, improvise and find alternative household items. But if you would like to make different motif cakes with 3D figures yourself more often in the future, it is of course worth investing in the right tools. Now let's get to the instructions for the chubby unicorn:
- First, form the white fondant into a large ball by rolling it back and forth on the table with your hand. Once it is nice and smooth on all sides, make it into an egg shape. Then press the smaller side in a little so that it becomes flatter. This is, so to speak, the chest of the unicorn and the larger and more bulbous side is the belly.
- Next you need two balls of the same size, which must be smaller than the first. Form the first one into a cone and cut the larger end off at an angle. You now have the first hind leg, which you can stick to your body with water. Repeat the whole thing with the second ball to make the second leg.
- Now, of course, you also need the front legs for the chubby unicorn. To do this, form two balls again, this time slightly smaller than the previous ones. Then turn the balls into skittles again. The smaller end forms the shoulder. Put the front legs aside for now.
- Again, you'll need a larger ball for the head. Use your hands to form an egg shape again and use it to make a horse's head, as shown in the video. There are also nostrils and a mouth. Make a tongue out of a small piece of pink fondant and put it in your mouth.
- Use the black marker pen to draw the closed eyes while using a brush to dab a little pink powdered food coloring onto the cheeks. Using a toothpick, pin the head to the body. Also add a little water for gluing. Better safe than sorry.
- Now make the mane with fondant in different bright colors. Yellow fondant is again used to shape the hooves (small discs) and the horn. If you want, you can also add a little gold shimmer to these elements.
- The hooves are now glued to the legs, the front legs to the body and the horn to the forehead. With a small piece of beige or brown fondant you can also simulate a piece of cake, as if the unicorn had eaten the cake. Alternatively, you can also cut the cake right next to the unicorn at the end (as if the unicorn had eaten it) and put a little of the dough on a hoof. You can also add a belly button. Now all that's left is to decorate the cake with fondant or cream and add the pummel unicorn.
Make your own Pummeleinhorn as a cake topper
The full unicorn is also suitable as a cake topper in 2D format. This will also look very funny and bring smiles to faces. You can make this type of pummel unicorn for the cake like the first variant for the normal unicorn in the first instructions, using a template that you then use to cut out the individual elements from the fondant.
Buy unicorn cake decorations
And if you don't have the desire or time to tinker with fondant or are simply not satisfied with your result after several attempts, you can fortunately also use a ready-made model that you can buy. Such figures can often be specially made in the pastry shop. Just ask whether this service is offered in your area.
