- One 10 inch round cake (baked and cooled, using your favorite cake mix!)
- Pastel-colored icing (such as pink, yellow, or blue)
- White icing
- Black icing
- Offset spatula or butter knife
- Piping bags andStar piping tips (choose your favorites)
Step 1: Bake and Cool Your Cake Start by baking your preferred cake mix in a 10 inch round pan according to the package instructions. Allow the cake to cool completely before moving on to shaping and decorating. Step 2: Shape Your Unicorn Once cooled, gently transfer the cake onto a clean, flat surface. Using a sharp knife, carefully cut out a wedge from one side of the cake round. Take this wedge and cut it into two pieces: one piece will be shaped into the unicorn's ear, and the other piece into its horn. Step 3: Arrange Your Unicorn Position the main part of the cake round in front of you, with the cut wedge forming the unicorn's ear and horn. Arrange these pieces creatively to bring the unicorn shape to life on a serving platter or cake board. Step 4: Ice Your Cake Using an offset spatula, ice the cake with white icing. Ensure the unicorn's shape is well-defined and smooth out the icing for a clean base to decorate. Step 5: Add the Horn and EarUse a gold-colored or yellow icing to pipe lines on the unicorn horn. Then spread a little bit of pastel pink icing into a triangle shape on the ear. Step 6: Frost the ManeUsing 2 or 3 colors of pastel icing (in piping bags fitted with star tips), pipe multiple swirls of icing to form your unicorn’s mane. Feel free to overlap them to create a full frosting mane! Step 7: Final TouchesPipe on a little black dot for the unicorn’s nostril, then pipe the smile and the eye.
