Unicorn Birthday Party

Unicorns seem to be the craze at the moment for young girls, so I wasn’t too surprised when Little Miss M asked for a Unicorn themed birthday party. I have being loving all of the unicorn cakes that come up on my feed, so was quietly excited that I got to make one.

Her birthday cake was a 7” chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, and covered in fondant. The unicorn horn was made from yellow coloured gumpaste, and then painted with gold edible paint. Little Miss M picked out the colours for the mane and I piped the buttercream onto the cake using a Wilton 2M tip.

When I made the unicorn horn for the cake, I also made little unicorn horns for the cupcakes and cakepops. I left these for a few days to harden and painted them also with the gold edible paint. The ears for the unicorn cake, cupcakes and cakepops were made with fondant and a little bit of Tylose mixed in. These were also made a few days ahead of time to give them time to harden, as I didn’t want the buttercream to make them soft.

The vanilla cupcakes were iced with buttercream coloured with Americolor Soft Pink and Americolor Avocado . When I pipe with buttercream I always put the buttercream on plastic wrap, roll into a tube and then put this in the piping bag. Then when I have finished I pull the plastic wrap out and dispose of it, and the piping bag is still relatively clean. In this instance I made two small plastic wrap tubes - 1 pink and 1 green and put both into the piping bag. Then when I was piping it swirled the two colours together.

I was dreading the cake pops as I knew trying to get the unicorn horn and little ears on them was going to be a fiddly job. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I had thought, as I used melted white chocolate to put the horns and ears on, and they stuck like glue. In fact, the cakepops were my favourite thing on the dessert table.

On our trip to the gold coin shop to get supplies, my daughter found the green and white polka dot popcorn cases to use as the goodie bags. We put some tissue paper in them, and filled them up with some treats for her friends.

I found the following printables on Pinterest - 

Unicorn Poop – I printed the tag onto sticker paper, cut them out, and then peeled and attached to Tic Tac containers.

Rainbow Seeds – I used skittles to fill little bags and then printed and stapled the labels onto the bags. When I was filling the bags I had them on kitchen scales so each bag had exactly the same amount of Skittles, so no need to count them.

Pink, White, and Gold Birthday Party

Last year I planned to do a cute ballerina themed birthday party for my daughter.  I had pins on my Pinterest board with pink themed dessert tables, pink ballerina cakes and other pink food goodies.

Planning was going well…until my daughter attended her friend’s birthday which was Frozen themed.  So of course, my daughter wanted a Frozen themed party as well……sadly I had to say goodbye to my pink décor and embrace the blue!!

This year she didn’t mention anything about a particular theme, so I decided to go with Pink, White and Gold which seems to be popular at the moment.  The good part was no figurines to make, as they are not my strong point.

I decided to go with a 7” chocolate cake, layered with vanilla buttercream, encased with milk chocolate ganache and covered in fondant.  The top layer was a 5” white chocolate mud cake, also layered with vanilla buttercream, encased with white chocolate ganache and covered in fondant.

I used Americolor Dusty Pink to colour my fondant, and cake board.  The gold was brushed on using Metallic Light Gold edible paint by Rainbow Dust.  For the name plaque I used the Vladimir Script font in Microsoft Word, flipped it horizontally, and printed it out.  I then traced it with parchment paper using a pencil.  After rolling out my fondant and using a circle cutter, I flipped my name to the correct side and traced this on the fondant.  You can then see the outline of the font, and then use edible paint or an edible pen to write on the fondant.   In this instance I used a black edible pen.  

The gold balls were made a couple of days before I assembled the cake, and didn’t work out well.  They were made with white fondant, left to harden and then painted with the same Metallic Light Gold edible paint that I used on the cake.  As they were hard they would not stick to the cake, and kept falling off. So I made new balls out of white fondant, and while they were still soft stuck them to the cake.  When they dried I then painted them gold, and the next morning gave them another touch of paint.

For the cupcake toppers a couple of days before the party I rolled out white fondant mixed with a bit of tylose, and cut out heart shapes.  The night before I painted them with the Metallic Light Gold edible paint, and left them to dry.  They were then nice and hard the next day, and wouldn’t go soft while sitting in the buttercream on the cupcakes.

The cake pops were made using leftover cake and ganache.  I dipped them in pink coloured white chocolate, and when the chocolate was set I painted Metallic Light Gold edible paint on them.

On Pinterest I found a tutorial on how to make the tassel garland.  They were very easy to make, the hardest part was trying not to burn my fingers with the hot glue gun!!