UNICORN cake | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we are making a Unicorn Cake because,
well you guys asked me to, lots and lots of times!
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Now to make this cake you'll need 6 sponge cakes leveled and the recipe videos for those
are on the howtocookthat.net website and I'll link to that below.
You will also need a triple quantity of the basic vanilla buttercream recipe.
And to make that all you do is beat together the butter and icing sugar and keep that going
for a few minutes until it looks smooth and dreamy.
Then add in vanilla or whatever flavouring you like.
Use a cookie cutter to cut the middle out of your sponge cake.
And then add some simple syrup on top.
Simple syrup is is just made using equal parts of sugar and water and heating that in the
microwave until the sugar is dissolved.
Then let it cool and you can add flavouring to it if you like.
I'm using some musk flavouring in mine (it's an Australian rose flavour).
Pipe a circle of buttercream onto the cake, and then spread that out using a spatula.
Piping it on makes it easy to get an even amount of buttercream between each layer of
cake.
Cut out the centre of the next layer and then add it on top.
Continue layering up simple syrup, frosting and cake until you have 5 layers of cake.
Fill the centre with mm's right up to the top.
And then add simple syrup, spread out the frosting around that top ring there and then
add your top layer of cake, you don't want a hole in that one.
Pipe buttercream all over the outside of your cake and spread it out covering up all the
gaps over the top and the sides getting it as smooth as you can.
Once it is fairly smooth you want to place it in the fridge to firm up.
Roll our some white and black fondant for the ears.
Cut a leaf shape out of the black just by cutting a curve and then the other way cutting
a curve back on it so it makes that leaf shape.
Then take some gold luster dust and brush it over the top using a dry paint brush.
Gently lift those up and place them onto some white fondant and then cut around the gold
leaf, shape leaving a border of white so that then we have the ear shape there.
Take a cake pop stick and press down gently on one end leaving a slight indent.
Then push the cake pop stick into the base of the ear.
To curve the ear up, place a snake of white fondant under the baking paper on each side
of the ear then press down using your little finger in the middle there.
You can make these a couple of days ahead and leave them to dry out or add Tylose powder
to the fondant so it dries out quickly.
Roll out some yellow fondant and cut out some stars, now if you don't have a star cutter
you can just print out a picture and cut around it using a knife instead.
With some of your stars cut out a smaller star inside as well, so you end up with a
star outline, and we are going to leave those to dry out.
Now roll a long snake of black fondant.
Now the key to getting a long, even snake is if you see anywhere where there is a bump,
just place your finger there and keep rolling until that is out and it is all smooth and
the same thickness.
Rub along one side with a little bit of water and then wrap one end around the base of an
ice-cream cone.
Just squash it down at the starting point so you don't have a blunt end there so that
it's actually going in.
Then twist the cone around and around to wind the fondant on.
Add another snake of fondant halfway up and continue to wrap it around all the way up
the cone and to the top.
And then just cut it off and neaten that top bit up.
Take some gold luster dust and brush the unicorn horn with gold.
And the reason you use black fondant is when the black is under the gold it makes it look
really shimmery and full coloured.
If you use white it looks a bit opaque and yellowy, it doesn't look at good.
Take the cake out of the fridge and smooth out any imperfections, just using a little
bit more buttercream.
Place any leftover buttercream into bowls and colour it using gel food colouring.
I'm going to make mine pink, blue and purple.
You can use whatever colours you'd like your unicorn to be.
Now I want to mix the pink and the purple in the one piping bag.
The way I do that is to take a double layer of plastic wrap and put some of the purple
icing onto the plastic warp along the length of it in a straight line, leaving a gap at
one end.
Then fold it over and roll it up like a sausage, making sure there's some empty space at one
end.
Repeat that with your pink frosting.
Now carefully put those together and place them inside your piping bag and shake them
down to make sure they go right down to the bottom.
And twist those empty ends together.
You want to twist it closed so that the icing can't come back out of the top when you're
piping.
Roll a strip of blue and then use a pizza cutter to cut two straight edges.
Then take that piece and wrap it around the base of your cake.
Now do the same with a strip of pink and then yellow.
Add the horn to the centre of your cake and then add each of your ears on either side
of the horn, just poking that cake pop stick down into the cake.
Take your mixed bag of icing and pipe a star just next to the ear and another one on the
other side.
Pipe a few more then add some smaller stars of blue in between, and continue to do that
until you've covered the top and down in a slight triangle at the front.
Now you want to bring the piping down one side and around like the unicorn's mane is
sweeping down and around over one side.
Then fill in the top at the back and bring that down that side too.
Now you can decorate that how you like, just adding a few little stars and different things
on top and then take some black fondant and cut out triangle chunks out of it so that
you're making the eyelashes for the unicorn.
Again dust them in gold so they look pretty.
And then carefully add them to the front of the cake.
🐴 UNICORN STORY TIME 🐴
Boo the unicorn was chillin' on a cloud, "I wish I had a friend," she sighed out loud.
Through the cumulonimbus came a giggling sound And Boo spotted a party way down on the ground.
When a single tear dripped down on her hoof, Boo slipped off the cloud and onto the roof.
"Who's there?"
screamed IceCream.
"A thief!" said CupCake.
"It's just me," Boo trembled and flopped on her butt.
"I was watching up there and wished I was here."
IceCream was concerned but Donut had no fear.
"Donut worry," he said with a smile as he bounced.
"We love it when new friends drop in unnannounced."
And thus was the story of how Boo Unicorn, with a fluffy white coat and a shimmering horn,
became friends with a family of sweet, yummy treats in a land where everyone...
Makes it a Great Week!
And there you have a super easy pretty Boo the Unicorn cake.
And it's filled with M&M's of course for that surprise inside when you slice it.
Make it a Great Week and I'll see you on Friday.

UNICORN cake | How To Cook That Ann Reardon

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