Baby Unicorn Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Paul takes you through the steps to making the internal structure to hold your cake firmly in place, the structure is also used for attaching the head but we’ll deal with that later!

In this lesson, Paul shows you how to stack your cakes over the threaded metal rod. One the cakes are in place it’s then time to carve the body of our unicorn.

In this lesson, Paul applies the ganache to the cake and smoothes it in preparation for being covered.

Now, Paul shows you how to cover the cake and shape your sugarpaste around the body for a nice smooth finish.

Paul shows you how to make the head from a polystyrene block.

Once the head is made all that’s left to do is cover it with sugarpaste and attach to the top of the cake using the threaded rod.

Before we go any further, its time to cover the board!

Paul shows you how to cut and apply sugarpaste onto the cake to make the hooves.

Now it’s getting interesting, here is where you can use your creative flair add a bit of personality to your unicorn!

What would a unicorn be without a horn!

Paul gives his baby unicorn some bright and colourful hair using sugarpaste.

Paul uses some dust and sprinkles to add those finishing touches that really make the cake stand out.

Paul shares some other ideas for your own unicorn cake.

In the pro lesson, Paul shares some useful tips and tricks when selling as well as a price and cost breakdown for the cake.