Ingredients

The following ingredients have 4 Servings
  • 1 white cake mix
  • ingredients listed on box ((egg whites oil and water))
  • red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring
  • 3-4 cups white frosting
  • 2/3-3/4 cup pink frosting
  • 3-4 ounces white candy clay
  • edible gold luster dust
  • 1/2 ounce pink candy clay
  • 1 ounce black candy clay
  • 1 ounce each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple candy clay

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Spray a 9-inch by 13-inch cake pan with baking spray.
  • Optionally, line the pan with parchment paper and spray the paper.
  • Divide white cake batter into 6 bowls (about 3/4 cup in each).
  • Color one bowl red, another orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
  • Pour batter into individual disposable pastry bags or large zip top bags.
  • Snip off the tip of the bag and pipe squiggles of one color batter into the pan.
  • Use about 1/3rd of the batter for the first layer.
  • Continue piping squiggles of colors, layering the 6 colors a total of three times.
  • Tap the pan on the counter a few times to level the cake batter and to remove any air bubbles.
  • Bake according to instructions on the cake mix box.
  • Remove cake and allow to cool completely.
  • Invert cake onto a cutting board.
  • Remove parchment paper if necessary.
  • Cut cake in half so you have two 9 by 6 1/2-inch pieces.
  • One piece will be the unicorn's body.
  • Cut the other piece in half so you have two 6 1/2 by 4 1/2-inch pieces.
  • One piece will be the unicorn's head.
  • Cut two 2 by 3-inch pieces for the unicorn's legs.
  • Discard or eat the remaining pieces.
  • Assemble the cake by placing the 9-inch by 6 1/2-inch cake in the lower half of your cake board forming the unicorn's body.
  • Set the 6 1/2-inch by 4 1/2-inch piece about 2 1/2 inches from the top edge of the larger cake forming the unicorn's head.
  • Place the two leg pieces under the body piece about 3/4 of an inch from either edge.
  • Spoon frosting into pastry bags fitted with #21 star tips.
  • Pipe white stars over the large cake.
  • Pipe stars over 3/4's of the head and legs, leaving room to pipe on pink hooves and a pink snout.
  • Pinch off about 3 ounces of white modeling chocolate and form into a twisted unicorn horn.
  • Brush with edible gold luster dust and attach to the cake near the right side of the top edge of the head.
  • Roll the remaining white candy clay to about 3/16-inch thickness. Cut out an ear using a 1 1/2-inch wide by 2 1/2-inch long teardrop cookie cutter or a knife.
  • Roll out the pink candy clay to about 1/16th-inch thickness.
  • Cut a smaller teardrop shape.
  • Use a small dab of water to attach the pink teardrop to the center near the lower edge of the white teardrop to form the unicorn's ear.
  • Set the ear aside to dry for about 10 minutes.
  • Roll out the black candy clay and cut out a 2 1/4-inch circle then cut just a thin edge from around the circle to create a thin moon-shaped eye.
  • Cut a small 3/4-inch round out of the black and do the same creating a nose.
  • Cut four small rectangles then shape them into teardrop shaped eyelashes.
  • Roll the remaining black candy clay into a long thin log for the unicorn's mouth.
  • Use a dab of frosting to attach the candy ear to the upper right corner of the unicorn's head.
  • Press the eye onto the cake to the left below the ear.
  • Then press the four eyelashes above the eye.
  • Press the black log onto the pink frosting creating the unicorn's smile.
  • Cut off any excess candy.
  • Press the nose above the smile.
  • Roll all the other colored candy clay pieces into 8 inch long logs.
  • Press them all together in rainbow order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
  • Cut the logs into one 3 inch side and one 5 inch side.
  • Flatten the logs and roll them out to about 1/4 inch thickness.
  • Shape the longer piece into a curved tail pinching together the left side.
  • On the right side, cut the ends so that each color has a nice pointed shape.
  • Cut the left edge of the other piece so that it's straight then cut the opposite side so that each color has a nice pointed shape.
  • Attach the tail to the top corner on the right side of the unicorn's body and the mane to the right edge of the unicorn's head.