Unicorn Cake Tutorial

Today we are working on a 3 tier unicorn theme cake. We made this one for a good friend. We had so much fun with this one!! Perfect for that magical birthday party!!!

Supplies:

cakes size 6 in, 8 in, and 10in

fondant

gumpaste

airbrush color

buttercream

airbrush

spaghetti noodles

fondant smoother

paint brush

1. Bake and crumb coat your cakes. Knead your

fondant until smooth. You can microwave it for a few 

seconds if you want to speed this step up. Be careful

though because it will melt.

2. Roll out your fondant evenly to about 1/4 inch 

thickness. We will cover the 8 inch 2 layer cake

in this tutorial. 

3. Lay the fondant over the crumb coated cake and 

smooth out the top.

4. Gently work the fondant onto the side of the cake.

Then smooth with a fondant smoother.

5. Trim off extra fondant with a sharp knife

to use on the rest of the cake. Smooth it once

more with the fondant smoother to make sure it

is all even and no bubbles.  Cover each tier of the 

cake and stack it all up. Stacking tutorial to come

later. Now its time to air brush.

6. After stacking your cake its time to airbrush the

color on. I buy already mixed airbrush color because

it doesn't clog as much as when I mix them myself. 

Fill your airbrush with the color you want. I used

a pearl blue. 

7. I was about 4 - 5 inches away from the cake and 

had the airbrush turned down on the lower spray

setting. Then I sprayed in circular motions until

I got the coverage I wanted. If you leave it patchy

with light and dark spots it will look like the sky.

8. Next we airbrushed the stars that we  cut out of
fondant earlier with a gold pearl

airbrush color. The same way the cake was airbrushed

9. for the rainbow we printed a template from the 

internet and cut it out of thick gumpaste. Then

used the fondant smoother to shape the side.

10. Here is the rainbow we used. 

11. We just used the fondant smoother to push one 

side of the rainbow to where we wanted it.

Added spaghetti to both ends so we could add

it to the cake and let it dry.

12. Now paint the rainbow. We just free handed it.

One row of color at a time.

13. Now stick the spaghetti in the edge of the cake. 

We started at the top and worked our way down 

putting one rainbow on each tier. hid the seems

with butter cream to look like clouds. Same

pattern of butter cream for the border on the cake 

too. We used a piping bag and a tip with a large round
hole in a swirl pattern for the clouds.

Close up of the star patter on the bottom layer.

Close up of the unicorn. Tutorial soon for that too.

Now its finished. :) Ready for

the party.

We also made cupcakes to match the theme with stars and clouds.

Cute!

Thanks for stopping by my blog and just let me know if you have any questions. I am happy to help all I can! :)