The mythical creature with the body of a horse and a large horn on his forehead, symbolizing the absolute goodness, dignity and strength of the mind, and also able to fulfill the most cherished desire of the person who caught him. All this is the unicorn that children love so much. So why not make the little birthday boy happy with the Unicorn cake dessert, maybe he can also fulfill his wish?

Master class on how to make a unicorn figurine from mastic

To make a realistic unicorn figure out of mastic, having stood all proportions, seems unreal? It does not matter, because even those who last sculpted plasticine at the lessons of fine art can easily repeat the cute figure of a seated unicorn-glutton.

 

To make it, you will need: a wooden skewer for the frame, white mastic for the torso, pink for the hoofs and literally a small piece of mastic of various bright colors for the mane, tail and horn.

Sculpt in steps:

  1. From white mastic form two identical balls - the body and the head. To give the body a pear-shaped shape, be sure to highlight the tummy. Set the torso on a wooden skewer.
  2. Roll a small piece of white mastic into a sausage, which is cut into four segments - legs. From a pink sausage, form and stick hooves to the legs. Attach the front and rear legs to the body.
  3. To form a head from another white ball of mastic, highlighting the lower part of the muzzle. Make recesses for the eyes into which to insert pieces of dark mastic. On the muzzle, push the groove for the mouth, in which a tongue is made from a piece of pink mastic.
  4. Put your head on a skewer with your body.Next, roll up colored mastic with thin flagella and lay on the head in the form of mane, and attach a tail of them to the body.
  5. To make a horn, roll balls from colored mastic, then squeeze them a little and assemble them with a pyramid from a larger diameter to a smaller one. Shape the cone into a shaped horn and attach to the head.

Such a figure can be seated next to the cake, breaking off a small piece from the dessert, supposedly ate a unicorn. And you can place it on the dessert, scattering sweets in an artistic mess.

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Unicorn Holiday Cake

Realistic 3D cakes in the form of Teddy bears, minions, dolls and other characters loved by children are difficult to repeat for a home confectioner, but a unicorn cake can be made without special equipment and training.

The algorithm for creating such a festive decor will be as follows:

  1. Roll up a tourniquet from white mastic, which will be thicker from one edge and evenly thin out to the other. Insert the skewer into the foam (horn frame) and wrap it with a mastic blank. Allow the horn to dry; if desired, it can be coated with candurin.
  2. Next, cut four blanks in the form of leaves of two colors from a layer of thinly rolled mastic with a glass or a special confectionery ring: white ones — larger and slightly smaller — pink. Put a skewer on a larger leaf, cover with a smaller one, squeeze well and shape the ear.
  3. Align the collected cake with cream, set the horn and ears on skewers on top. Next, from multi-colored cream curls to make a rainbow mane. On the side of the cake with the help of flagella made of chocolate mastic, draw eyes.

You can make a colorful mane without a cream, using various sweets for it: meringues, marshmallows, marshmallows, colored pastry sprinkles.

Cooking without mastic

In previous design options, certain details were made from sugar paste, but you can make a birthday cake in the form of a unicorn without using mastic. To do this, you need to knead the shortbread or gingerbread dough and bake three gingerbread from it: one in the form of a horn and two in the form of ears.

 

Be sure to insert wooden toothpicks into the hot gingerbread cookies, and after cooling, pour them with white sugar icing. Ears and horn can be painted with food colors if desired.

The unmasked design takes place similarly to the previous version: gingerbread ears and a horn are attached to the leveled cake, eyes are drawn on the sidewall, and a mane of cream or sweets falls on the rainbow from the top.

Unicorn cake for a girl

Unicorns are fairy-tale characters, mostly girls who are crazy about them, therefore young birthday girls prefer bright multi-colored cakes with figures or cream manes. In the general piggy bank to the design options proposed above, you can offer another one that does not require any special confectionery devices, but only a tall cake with such decor will look spectacular.

Dessert decoration sequence:

  1. Since unicorns are usually depicted as white horses with colorful manes, the background for them should be colored so that the image does not get lost on a white cake. Therefore, at the first stage, you need to make the cake bright. It can be painted with bright cream, applying it with chaotic multi-colored strokes or a uniform, neat layer. Mastic lovers can cover the cake with a layer of colored sugar paste.
  2. Next, you need to choose a beautiful image of the head of a unicorn or just a white horse and print it on sugar paper. Cut the picture along the contour and just stick it on the side of the cake. If it is not possible to print the picture, then you can cut the head of a unicorn from a thin layer of white mastic, and then draw eyes and other missing elements on it.
  3. After that, it remains to give vent to their imagination. You can make a bulky mane of cream or multi-colored mastic flagella. At the foot of the cake, the unicorn’s neck can be decorated with flowers made of cream, mastic or wafer paper.

It is better not to cut the horn from sugar paper with the head, but to make it from mastic or gingerbread and attach it to the cake.

Do-it-yourself rainbow unicorn

Rainbow is the first association that occurs when a unicorn is mentioned. So why in this connection not to make a rainbow cake from multi-colored cakes.

The composition of the bright dessert will include:

  • 240 g butter;
  • 260 g of sugar;
  • 6 eggs;
  • 120 ml of milk;
  • 15 g of baking powder;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • 400 g flour;
  • 85 g of white chocolate;
  • 200 g of heavy cream;
  • food colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

Baking Technologies:

  1. Beat soft butter thoroughly with sugar. Into the resulting lush mass, introduce eggs one at a time, then mix in half the flour sifted with baking powder and salt, milk and the remaining flour.
  2. Next, divide the dough into six parts and paint it in the colors of the rainbow. Each portion of color dough is baked in a mold with a diameter of 16 cm at 180 degrees.
  3. Cool the finished cakes and trim by cutting off the convex hats from above and cutting the browned crust from the sidewalls.
  4. For cream, finely chopped chocolate pour 100 ml of hot cream, stir until smooth and pour the remaining cream at room temperature. Let the ganache stand overnight in the refrigerator, and then beat the cream with a mixer until splendid.
  5. Collect the prepared cakes and cream into a cake, then decorate in the form of a unicorn, using the attractive decor.

If the hostess has only one form of the desired diameter, it will be advisable to first knead the dough from half the ingredients, bake three cakes, and then make a batch for three more cakes. So the biscuits come out equally magnificent.

Based on the Red Velvet Cake

Unicorn cake can also be made on the basis of “Red Velvet” cakes.

These biscuit cakes will not sag under the mastic figure and will be perfectly combined with any kind of cream in an unmanned design.

 

The cakes based on "Red Velvet" include:

  • 4 eggs;
  • 300 g of sugar;
  • 300 ml of refined vegetable oil;
  • 300 ml of fatty kefir or other fermented milk product;
  • 400 g flour;
  • 30 g of cocoa powder;
  • 10 g of baking powder;
  • 2.5 g of salt;
  • red gel dye.

One of the options for the filling, which is ideal for these cakes and for decor, can be a cream based on creamy curd cheese:

  • 400 g cream cheese curd;
  • 150 g butter;
  • 100 g of powdered sugar;
  • vanilla or any flavor as desired.

Baking Algorithm:

  1. Ingredients for cakes can be measured and put into a container of a suitable displacement, then mix everything thoroughly with a mixer, or you can break down the process of kneading the dough into stages, first combining the liquid components, and only then add the loose ones.
  2. Depending on the size of the mold, 3-4 high cakes will come out of this batch. They need to be baked at 180 degrees until cooked, which is determined by a dry toothpick. Ready-made biscuits should lie down overnight in the refrigerator, wrapped with plastic, and then each can be dissolved into two thinner layers.
  3. For cream, beat soft butter with powdered sugar until splendid, then in small portions add, whipped separately, whipped separately chilled cream cheese.

When the cakes and cream are ready, it remains only to assemble a neat smooth turret from them, which is then leveled with cream and decorated in the form of a unicorn.

Important Tips

Unicorn cake is a beautiful and absolutely uncomplicated festive dessert, but if you do not take into account a number of features, then it can be ruined.

To avoid this, it is important to remember:

  1. If the mane is laid out from colored meringues, then from the moisture of the cream it can become covered with droplets of condensate and soak. To prevent this from happening, the places where the meringues come in contact with the cream should be insulated by dipping air curls in melted white chocolate.
  2. If you do not want to use mastic in the decor, but there is a great desire to make a unicorn figurine, then sugar paste can be replaced with plastic chocolate. To do this, mix melted chocolate (100 g) with liquid honey (30-60 g) and knead until the mass has gathered in a lump.
  3. If you print a drawing with a unicorn not on sugar paper, but on a wafer base, then before attaching it to the cake, you need to glue it on a substrate of a thin layer of mastic so that the image retains its brightness.

Another important point that should not be forgotten is that the highlight of the cake is a combination of whiteness with rainbow multicolor, so regardless of the chosen design option, you should take care of acquiring bright food colors. Without them, dessert will not work.

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