UNICORN CAKE

Hello lovelies! Bringing this one to you a little earlier as Sunday is Christmas eve. Anyway, it was my best friend's birthday last week and i made her this cake, i know you guys enjoy these kind of blog posts so im super excited to be sharing this with you! I will leave all details regarding ingredients, measurements, tools/equipment and how i work with fondant etc. Hope you enjoy! 

For the cake: (makes 3 cakes)

-340g Butter 

-340g Caster Sugar 

-340g Self-raising flour 

-6 large eggs 

-3 tsp baking powder 

-Milk  

-19cm/7.5" round cake pan (and parchment paper)

- Food colouring if you want to make pastel sponge (optional)

For the buttercream: 

-450g Butter 

-1.5kg icing sugar 

-Milk 

-Pink, Orange, Blue & Green food Coloring 

Decoration/Extras: 

-Strawberry Jam for the filling 

-Pink and white fondant icing 

-Black icing pen 

-Edible glitter (optional)  

-Piping bags and a number of different nozzles 

-Rolling pin 

-Palette knife/ cake smoother 

For the cakes, mix the butter and sugar together until smooth and creamy. Add half the eggs and half the flour, mix together and repeat with the other halves. Add the baking powder and add drops of milk until it resembles cake batter. Add food colouring at this stage which is completely optional but could look cool with rainbow sponge. Share between 3 cake pans and bake for 20-25 mins or until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean. 

For the buttercream, mix the butter for around 5 mins until it changes colour. Add the icing sugar a bit at a time until you have used it all (i suggest using an electric mixer for this as it takes a long time) and add milk until it is thick enough to hold its shape but is also pipeable. 

Once cooled, trim the tops of the cakes so they are flat and stack one by one, filling each layer with jam and buttercream, using a palette knife to make sure every level is even. Don't forget to put the top cake on upside down as this will help with covering it in fondant later. Take more buttercream and cover the cake in a crumb coat and leave to set. 

Take the rest of the buttercream, split into bowls and dye with food coloring. You can choose which and how many colors you have, i chose my friends favorites so this is up to you. Place in piping bags with nozzles on and put aside for later. 

Roll out the white fondant icing to about 1 cm thick (making sure to cover the work top in icing sugar so it doesn't stick), roll back onto the rolling pin and roll over the cake. Use your hands to smooth the fondant down over the cake and trim around the bottom once you are happy with it. 

To make the fondant ears, cut out white fondant (thicker than what you covered the cake with) into two triangles (make sure they are in proportion to the cake) and round out the edges. Bend them over a rolling pin until they set. Repeat with pink fondant, making these slightly smaller than the white and once set, use a tiny amount of water to stick them together. You could either use a toothpick to hold them on the cake or stick with water. For the horn you can either roll icing into a sausage shape, thicker at one end and wrap around a cakepop stick or roll into a horn shape and score lines curving around it. Attach the horn in the same way as the ears (you could paint with metallic fondant paint if you have it like in the photo but i left mine pink). 

Once these are on the cake, take your colored icing in the piping bags and start to pipe rosettes over the top of the take and taper down the back into a point. Use all the different colors and try to pipe different designs (as shown by the photos). 

Use a black writing icing pen to draw on the eyes and sprinkle on some edible glitter. And that's it!

I followed a reference photo & used my own cake recipe but @Rosanna Pansino on YouTube made a video on how to make a unicorn cake, I will link it below as this may make more sense😊

I hope you enjoyed this! I loved making it, im so happy with how it turned out and my best friend loved it! If you recreate this then please tag me in a photo on social media so i can see it (always linked at the bottom). If you enjoyed this then dont forget to subscribe on the home page to keep up to date with all my blog posts, i do everything from baking and lifestyle to beauty and skincare! Thank you so much for reading, i really appreciate it and share with friends if you think they would enjoy it!   

I wont blog again before Christmas so i hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, i hope you get everything you asked for and treasure spending time with your family! If you want me to blog what i get for Christmas then let me know! I love you all so much! 

Lots of love, Lois❤

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Rosanna Pansino's video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_Neg-Hp84