Unicorn Cake
- Tanya
- Nov 29, 2017
- 3 min read
So on Monday afternoon, I was commissioned to make a cake for Tuesday evening, I decided to accept, since at the time I didn't have too much going on , until later in the week when I would need to get ready for the breakfast with Santa bake sale on December 2. Just as my luck would have it I get a call that I needed to go to work, so that meant that I only had an evening to pull of this cake!! Some people might panic but me nah I will procrastinate a bit, and scrub down my kitchen, I also spent some time looking at inspiration ideas since the parent said child wanted a unicorn cake. I found these 2 beauties and sent them to the mom.
Child decided she liked the purple one. As I follow the like I find that it’s a cake by none other than one of my favorite YouTube cake decorations Rosanna Pansino from Nerdy Nummies. I watched her tutorial for inspiration on where to start.
When I finished cleaning the kitchen and making supper I got started. A marble cake was requested, which honestly has not been my specialty until I baked this cake. I followed my vanilla recipe, and modified it appropriately for the chocolate. Oh and I decided to do triple the recipe, which was a bit much since I ended up with three 8 inch round cakes and 2 dozen cupcakes which I have frozen for a couple other projects this week… More blogs to come this weekend!
I made a traditional vanilla custard filling and about 8 cups of buttercream icing. Once the cakes were cooled and leveled I layered them, hoping for an amazingly tall cake like Rosanna’s instead despite the 3 layers it looked like my regular 2 layer cake, which I was ok with.
The next trick was getting the icing to be perfectly smooth. Problem was my icing was a bit thick and it did not want to become perfectly smooth like the photo.
Then I had tons of fun with flowers and swirls and decorating the top, since my edges were not perfectly smooth I used it as an opportunity to give the unicorn a bit of bangs, then I got carried away with the back, which looked beautiful in my opinion.
Finally the horn and ears, I was happy that it only took 2 tried to get the horn correct. I used marshmallow fondant and I folded in a bit of Gum Tex (to help harden it). The horn and ears stayed a bit soft and pliable, so I think I might have needed to use a bit more Gum Tex or waited until morning to paint the color on? Not sure if you have ideas about this let me know.
I finished the cake in record from baking to layering to decorating was a total of 2-3 hours. I was happy with how it turned out considering:
The time crunch
2. It was my first time
The challenges with the buttercream,
Well that’s 1 baking project done this week, several more to go!
Let me know what you think!! If you have question or comments or you would like to make an order with me either comment bellow or visit me on social media on Facebook or Instagram or visit my contacts page.
XOXO
Tanya from Tancakes
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