It’s time to begin our next collection of cake and cupcake decorating tutorials and we are super excited about the next four instalments! For the next four weeks we’ll be showing you how to create some rather sweet and whimsical fairy tale themed pieces as well as some pretty darn fun and tasty recipes too! We commence with a wonderfully adorable fondant / sugarpaste unicorn sat upon rainbow swirled cupcakes with vanilla buttercream; perfect for kids’ parties. Now if these cupcakes don’t educe an excitable rush to the dessert table at a party then we may eat our chef’s hats! Keep posted on the next three tutorials/recipes to find how what we’ll be creating next…
Fondant / Sugarpaste Unicorn Cake and Cupcake Decor
You’ll need…
Coloured fondant
- Blue for the body
- Pink and ivory for the mane
- Ivory for the horn
Cake smoother
Toothpicks
Sugar pearls
Blade tool
Ball tool
Flower and leaf shaping tool
Small round piping tip
Step one: To create your unicorn’s body simply shape a fair amount of your blue fondant into an ‘egg’. This will be your unicorn’s body.
Step two: Set your unicorn’s body aside for the time being and use the same method to create a smaller ‘egg'; this will become your unicorn’s head. Using the small end of the ball tool indent two eye sockets and place a sugar pearl in each. For the nostrils simply use the larger end of the flower and leaf shaping tool to indent the fondant.
Step three: To create the legs take four small balls of blue fondant, two slightly larger than the other two, and roll until you have four ‘sausage’ shapes. Once you’re happy with these begin tapering one end of each leg and flattening the other.
Step four: To create your unicorn’s ears take two very small balls of blue fondant and use your fingers to shape them into triangles. Using your flower and leaf shaping tool indent two triangular shapes to add detail.
Step five: To assemble your unicorn you will need water and a paintbrush. Apply a small amount of water to where you need to apply the legs and press the legs gently in place. To affix the head press half a toothpick into the ‘neck’ area, add a little water around the toothpick and attach the head.
Step six: Now it is time to create your unicorn’s horn! Cut a toothpick down to the appropriate size (this will depend on how small or large you have made the actual unicorn) and push it into the fondant between where your unicorn’s ears will be. Using your cake smoother roll a long, thin tube of fondant cutting away any rough edges with your blade tool. Paint the tool pick with a small amount of water and wind the fondant around until it is completely covered. Now with a little water affix the ears in place!
Step six: To make your unicorn’s hair and tail use the cake smoother to roll out more thin tube shaped fondant in ivory and pink. Cut away rough edges with your blade tool and stick in place with water and a paintbrush.
Once your unicorns are finished pipe your rainbow cupcakes and swirl with vanilla buttercream and sit the fondant unicorns on top. You should be left with an array of bright, lovely and wonderfully fun cupcakes; perfect for a vibrant kids’ party or any event with a whimsical theme!
Please contact me urgently. I have found your work illicitly posted as someone else’s…
http://www.cakemania.it/bambini/tutorial-di-cake-desing-come-si-fa-un-unicorno-in-pasta-di-zucchero/
Cakemania is simply posting the tutorial, while the credit is being given to Dolciamo (I believe it is Dolciamo who is illicitly taking credit, to Cakemania’s unawareness).
http://www.dolciamo.com/
It’s not on their website, but if you see the first lick, the credit is given to Dolciamo “Unicorno in pasta di zucchero ©Dolciamo.com”.
Please contact me via email if you need more info or a translation from Italian to english.
In the meantime, i have written to Cakemania to tell them and have told them I would inform you.
Thanks
Alexandra
Thank you.
Hi Alexandra, Thank you for your comment and for letting us know about this matter. We have emailed them to ask they remove the post. Many thanks for letting them know about this too; that was a very kind thing to do!
Dear Juniper Cakery and Alexandra, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.
The content has been promptly removed from Cakemania and we apologize for the incident. We were in fact unaware of this previous publication and are waiting to hear from Dolciamo about it.
Kindest regards.
Hi! Not to worry, I admire your work and follow you on Twitter (Cupcakes in Rome) so I immediately recognized the photos!
Just to updated you, i received an email from the staff at Cakemania who were completely unaware that the work was yours and are thankful that I informed them. They have told me that they are gonig to immediately take the post down and apologize for not having verified their source.
Happy to be of help!
Dear Juniper Cakery and Alexandra, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. The content has been promptly removed from Cakemania and we apologize for the incident. We were in fact unaware of this previous publication and are waiting to hear from Dolciamo about it. Kindest regards.
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