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Unicorn cake: step-by-step recipe with photos. How to make beautiful figures from mastic How to make a horn from mastic

You can prepare Unicorn cake in various ways. The confectioner uses marshmallows, mastic and multi-colored cream as decoration, using sophistication in the uniqueness of the design. But most of the recipes are quite simple, so they can be prepared at home. To create a beautiful cake, like the one in the picture, you need to be patient and purchase the necessary confectionery equipment.

An amazing unicorn cake for a girl does not require any special decorating skills. To create a culinary masterpiece, you need to show a little imagination and approach the creation of a chocolate cake from a creative side.

Ingredients for the crust:

butter - 200 g;
cane sugar - 200 g;
chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
premium wheat flour - 180 g;
cocoa powder - 75 g;
baking powder - 1 sachet;
rock salt - 1 pinch.

Ingredients for cream:

butter - 800 g;
powdered sugar - 400 g;
curd cheese - 600 g;
food colors of different colors;
pink and black marshmallows - for decoration.

Preparing the crust and base for the unicorn:

Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 170 degrees. Beat the eggs using a mixer. When they start to bubble, add sugar. We continue to work with the mixer at high speed until the mass increases in volume.

Add pre-sifted flour mixed with cocoa, baking powder and salt. Beat at low speed.

Cut the butter into cubes and add to the semi-finished dough. We go through the mixer so that all the ingredients are mixed.

Place the finished dough on a baking sheet and level it with a spatula. Set to bake for 20-25 minutes. Check for doneness with a match or toothpick.

We cut the finished cake into four rectangles of different sizes.

We put together a cake in the shape of a unicorn from the pieces.

The largest part will become the body of the unicorn, the middle one will transform into the head. We design the remaining two small pieces as hooves.

Preparation of cream:

Mix the oil with powder at medium mixer speed.

Add curd cheese to the yellow mixture. It needs to be at room temperature.

Set aside ⅕ of the cream and color it red or pink. We leave some of the white color for further decoration.

Place the yellow cream without additional coloring into a pastry bag and begin decorating the cake.

We draw the muzzle and hooves in pink.

We paint the remaining cream in bright colors and place it in smaller piping bags. Draw the tail and mane with wavy lines. The unicorn cake for a girl is almost ready.

We go over the colorful lines with a spatula, making them flatter.

Cut the marshmallow into strips and roll the horn. We make the ear and eyes in the same way so that the fairytale Unicorn cake looks beautiful and interesting.

But if you were unable to create them using pastille, you can always arm yourself with a smaller nozzle for a pastry bag and draw additional details with cream.

We decorate the room in a birthday theme and place a Unicorn cake at the head of the table.

An elegant cake with a unicorn will look spectacular on your holiday table. Girls' favorite character from cartoons and fairy tales will turn the celebration into a fantastic, memorable event.

Ingredients for the crust:

butter - 340 g;
cane sugar - 400 g;
chicken egg - 6 pcs.;
strawberry flavored yogurt - 200 ml;
lemon - 2 pcs.;
premium wheat flour - 470 g;
baking powder - 20 g.

Ingredients for decorations:

white mastic - 100 g;
powdered sugar - 1 tbsp;
vodka - 25 ml;
golden kandurin (dye) - 1 tsp.

Ingredients for cream (cake layer):

granulated sugar - 1 cup;
water - 100 ml;
white chocolate - 120 g;
any strawberries - 100 g;
cane sugar - 2 tbsp;
cream cheese - 360 g;
butter 82.3% - 60 g;
powdered sugar - 120 g.

Ingredients for Cream Cheese:

cream cheese - 700 g;
powdered sugar - 200 g;
butter - 450 g;
multi-colored dyes.

Preparing the cakes:

Mix flour with baking powder using a whisk.

Beat soft butter and sugar until white with a mixer at medium speed.

Add eggs, adding them portionwise and beating thoroughly.

Cut the lemons in half and remove the zest with a teaspoon. Add yogurt and zest to the fatty mass. Continue beating until smooth.

Add flour in two stages, beating the dough with a mixer each time.

Divide the dough into two equal portions and distribute into baking dishes. The detachable circle for making cakes should reach 20 centimeters in diameter.

Bake for 60 minutes at 180 degrees.

We cool the finished cakes in the kitchen, and then wrap them in cling film and put them in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.

Preparing decorations:

Cut off a piece of white mastic and roll it into a long strip with your hands. We fold it in the shape of a horseshoe, and then weave it like a pigtail, holding the edges with our fingers and twisting, holding the base of the arc.

We cut off the excess part with a sharp knife and set it aside.

We thread the mastic onto a wooden skewer, like a shish kebab, connecting the edges so that the horn does not unwind back into a horseshoe.

We glue the horn parts together with plain water, working carefully with a brush.

Roll out a small piece of mastic and cut out 2 circles of larger and smaller diameter using special pastry molds or a tea cup and glass.

Place circles of larger diameter on top of each other and cut out the moons using a mold. We do the same with circles of smaller diameter. You should get four oval pieces of mastic in the shape of a leaf. Then we go over the larger ones with a brush dipped in ordinary water and apply smaller ones on them.

We grease the base of the smaller part again and squeeze it around the skewer, forming ears for the future unicorn. Let the mastic harden for 6-8 hours.

We take the finished products out of the refrigerator. Mix gold dye with vodka and paint the blanks with a brush.

Preparation of cream and syrup for the layer:

Cut the strawberries into pieces and sprinkle with sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly without adding water.

While hot, grind the berries through a sieve using a tablespoon. Mix the finished puree thoroughly.

Break the chocolate into slices, heat it in a water bath and mix with the strawberry mixture.

Beat the cheese, powder and butter until smooth using a mixer. Add the prepared jam with chocolate and once again go through the cream with the mixer at low speed.

Mix granulated sugar with drinking water and cook over low heat for 40 minutes, stirring regularly along the bottom. Leave to cool.

Forming the cake:

We measure the place of the cut using a ruler and a knife. Then remove the tops from the soaked cakes. First, we pass the blade along the intended slots, and then we go deeper towards the middle.

Then we take new measurements to evenly cut both cake layers into two equal halves. We cut according to the same principle as when removing the top. Place four cake layers on a work surface.

Soak the cake with syrup, spreading it evenly using a silicone brush. Then spread a small amount of cream and smooth it with a spatula. Place the next layer of cake, soak and grease.

We repeat the process of forming the “Unicorn” cake for the girl, carefully coating the penultimate cake layer, which will become the final one.

Spread the excess cream on the sides, shaping them with a spatula and put the workpiece in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

The final stage of cake design:

Preparing Cream Cheese. To do this, beat the soft butter to a smooth paste. Add powder and repeat the process of mixing the ingredients using a mixer. Then add cheese to the semi-finished cream and beat again.

Before making the Unicorn cake incredibly beautiful, it is important to apply a rough version of the cream, forming the first layer. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

We take out the cake and apply the finishing version of the cream. Then we shape it using a pastry spatula, smoothing out all the unevenness. Where too much cream has been removed, you can add an additional layer using a spatula. And then go through the spatula again. Having leveled the sides, we move to the top of the cake.

Place the remaining cream in bowls and paint them in different colors. Place one at a time into a disposable pastry bag.

Draw the unicorn's eyes using a wooden skewer. We put black dye on the brush and fill it with the finished stencil on the cream.

We apply the first pattern between the eyebrows of the fairy horse. Then we apply it randomly to add color to the mane, making circular movements with the bag to create curls on the cake.

When a new color scheme appears, we begin to squeeze out the cream, lowering and raising the nozzle nose. With a new shade, we repeat the same movements, filling the gaps between the curls and the white cream.

In this article I will try to outline in detail some of the features of making jewelry from mastic with my own hands for beginners.

Basics

I am often asked about which mastic is best to sculpt figures from. For some time I worked with both store-bought mastic, made according to various recipes, and with sugar paste, but I always returned to my recipe because I know how to adjust it to my needs.

Here I will not describe the process of making complex figures, but will simply try to talk in detail about how to make figures from mastic with your own hands. We will be making a person with relatively realistic body proportions and simple clothing. I am confident that anyone who follows these instructions will eventually learn how to create excellent fondant figures for a children's cake, and that this knowledge will help in the future when moving on to more complex working techniques and making figures with outstretched arms, as well as sculpting animals from mastic.

If you have any questions about how to sculpt figures from fondant, do not hesitate to ask them in the comments. I will try to answer them as quickly as possible, but please remember that I am a busy person, so don't expect immediate answers from me.

Remember that all this is not the ultimate truth, but just my own experiences, and you may have a different view on how to make figures from mastic for a cake. So there are no hard and fast rules here other than maybe the placement of parts, so adapt these tips to your needs and preferences.

Required materials and tools

In my work, I try to avoid unnecessary expensive tools and often use what I already have at home. I'll stick with that idea throughout this tutorial and try to keep the amount of what you need to make your sugar gummies to a minimum.

To make a simple figurine from mastic, you will need:

Mastic of different colors for making the following parts: pants, boots, sweaters, leather, hair;
A few toothpicks. Note: Do not give fondant products containing toothpicks to young children and be sure to warn everyone else that they contain toothpicks. You can substitute solid pasta if you wish, but let everyone know anyway;
Salt shaker with powder or corn syrup, whichever you prefer. If you don't have a salt shaker, you can use a spoon instead;
Cutting board (as smooth as possible);
A sharp, non-corrugated knife;
Small or medium ball shaped mastic tool;
Small pastry brush;
Water in a small container;
Black food gel coloring;
A surface on which you will place the figures, such as a cake or, if you are making them in advance, a piece of foam;
Printed sketch of a person (see below).

Through trial and error, I realized that as I made figures from mastic, each subsequent piece turned out to be larger than the previous one, and as a result, I ended up with disproportionate mastic crafts. It was also difficult for me to make several figures of the same size if I did it by eye. For this reason, I began to use sketches similar to the one shown above and the figures for the mastic cake began to turn out to be the right size. Just upload this sketch to any graphic editor (I use Irfanview), set the desired height of the future figure and print the sketch. This approach can also be used when decorating a cake to figure out how to arrange the figures and what size they should be.

The height of the figurine described in this article is 6.3 cm.
Mastic is usually sticky, so to roll it out properly and avoid sticking to the board and your fingers, sprinkle your work surface and hands with powdered sugar. Don't worry about getting powdered sugar all over the figure; you can easily clean it afterwards.

To glue pieces of mastic, apply a thin layer of water to one of them using a brush and press them together. You may need to move them around a little to get them to stick, but usually just water is enough to do this. Some people like to use different types of edible glue, either store-bought or homemade, but I usually don't bother with that. Water glues perfectly in almost all cases.

If you are working in a dry area, you may need to soften your mastic to prevent cracking on the surface. To do this, just mix a small amount of water into the dough and warm it in your hands. Try to do everything quickly so that the mastic does not have time to dry out and begin to crack. In high humidity conditions, you may need to stir in additional powdered sugar into the fondant and increase the time between steps to prevent the pieces from mixing.

We sculpt a person

Roll out a long snake from blue mastic. Make sure its thickness matches the leg thickness on the printed sketch. Don't worry about it being too long - you can always cut off the excess.

Using the blunt side of a knife, make a notch in the middle of the snake and bend the fondant along it.

Place the bent snake on the sketch so that the bent edge is near the hips. If necessary, trim the bottom of the pants.

Turn the pants over and place them next to the sketch. Using the blunt part of a knife, make indentations at the knees. They will help prevent wrinkles from forming when folded.

Gently rotate the knife several times to make the indentation wider. The back of the legs should look like this:

If you are decorating the cake now, you can wet the back of the legs with water and place them on the edge of the cake. I made the figure on foam plastic, so I’ll tell you further about the features of this case.

Place a handful of powdered sugar on the surface and, with your knees gently bent, place them on the edge of the foam.

To make the figure more stable, you can moisten the gap between the pants and carefully, so as not to damage the shape, press one leg to the other.

Make two even balls of black mastic, slightly larger than in the sketch (shoes require more mastic than feet without them, unless you are making thin slippers). To get identical balls, you can use this tricky trick: make a thick sausage with flattened ends out of mastic and cut it in half.

Shape the balls into droplets of water, but without the pointed end at the top, and then press them down lightly.

Break a toothpick in half and insert each one into the legs from the bottom. Leave an overhang long enough to hold the boot.

Wet the top and sides of the shoes with water (and the back if you're decorating the cake now) and place them over the raised portions of the toothpicks.

Insert a toothpick into the top of the legs so that it goes a little deep into the foam, but make sure there is enough length at the top to fit the body over it.

Make a block of mastic that is wider on one side. Its thickness may vary depending on the size of your figure. I find that 1.3 cm thickness is suitable for most cases.

Now put it on the sketch. The upper edge of the bar should reach the shoulders, and the lower edge should reach the legs. The block should be flat near the shoulders, but you can make a depression in the opposite part if you want the sweater to extend slightly over the pants.

After adding a little water, place the body on the toothpick and press it on top so that it sticks to the legs.

Press down on the sides of the block so that its edges are in line with your hips.

Roll out a long snake of the same color as the body from the mastic, place it on the sketch along the line of the arm and cut off the excess, without taking into account the length of the hand and fingers, which we will do next. From above, cut the snake along the vertical line of the body (at an acute angle).

If you need to make hands that would be in a horizontal position, then the angle needs to be made more obtuse. The sharp angle is needed so that the arms are close to the body and the figurine's palms are on the knees, because in this case there is no need to make any internal supports or wait for the mastic to harden.

Do the same with the other hand, making sure that they are the same length.

Mark the elbow bend with the blunt side of the knife.

Bend your arm along the line, and make elbows on the back side with your fingertips. Unlike the knees, the elbows should be slightly pointed. If after this the arm begins to wobble, add a little water to the elbow and press lightly to glue the edges of the indentation.

Using a ball-shaped tool, make small indentations at the base of the arms. They are needed to make the hands look like extensions of the arms, and not as if they were torn off from the body and then glued back on.

Wet the surface of the hand that will be adjacent to the body with water and press it against the torso and leg. While you do this, shape your shoulders as desired.

Don't place the bases of your hands close to each other unless you're going for folded hands. And this will most likely be difficult to do without bending them at an unnatural angle.

Then insert another toothpick into the top of the body, this will be the internal support for the head. Stick it deep enough so that it does not come out of the head on the other side.

Leave the hands to harden for a while before making the palms.

Roll out a drop-shaped ball from flesh-colored mastic and place it on the sketch. The ball should slightly cover the contours of the head in the sketch, but nothing more. In general, it is better to make the head a little smaller, since it can be enlarged later due to the hair.

It is usually difficult for beginners to make a bare neck well, so it is better to replace it with a sweater collar. To do this, make a small thick cylinder of mastic and put it on a toothpick.

Make a small indentation at the front.

Take the head made in the previous steps and place it on the toothpick at an angle. The chin should point forward, otherwise the head will look like a ball.

Using a ball-shaped tool, make small holes for the eyes.

Roll out a very small piece of mastic into a drop-shaped ball and press it with your fingers.

Then attach it to your head so that its sharp tip is level with your brow ridges.

Use a toothpick to make the nostrils, moving it slightly to the side to outline the shape of the nose.

The mouth can be made in two ways: draw it or cut it out. You can cut out the mouth with the tip of a sharp knife.

When you're done, lightly press the knife down on the bottom half of your mouth to highlight the bottom lip.

Use a toothpick to form the lower part of the lip and, pressing lightly, cover the figure’s mouth.

Use the pointed end of a toothpick to shape the middle of the upper lip, making a small indentation.

The easiest way to sculpt hands is to make them in the form of mittens. For those who want to make more realistic hand outlines, detailed instructions are given below.

Roll out a hand-sized piece of fondant onto the template and shape it into a teardrop shape, as you did in the previous steps for the head and nose.

Then decide which hand you are doing: right or left. Place your hand next to the piece of mastic to get an idea of which way your thumb should be facing.

Make a V-shaped cut as shown in the photo below.

Draw a knife around to mark the thumb.

Cut another small piece to give the finger the desired shape.

Make cuts to form the remaining fingers.

Use your fingers to gently smooth out any sharp corners.

Use a ball tool to form light indentations in the palms of your hands.

By turning your hand and pressing it lightly with your fingers, make a round wrist.

After adding a little water to your leg and sleeve, insert your wrist there. Nails can be marked with the tip of a toothpick.

Do the above method on the other hand.

One of the easiest ways to make hair is to mold it into a cap or a pot. Take a piece of mastic and shape it like in the picture below. It should have a flat surface at the bottom and a slightly convex top.

Press the mastic with your thumb and forefinger and twist it.

When shaping your hair, always check how it will look on your head to choose the right size. Once you get the size you want, press the hair down at the edges so it's thin and doesn't look like a helmet.

Wet the inside of your hair with water and gently attach it to your head.

To create curls, run a sharp knife along the edge of your hair a couple of times.

Long hair can be easily achieved by simply pressing the mastic on one side more than on the other.

If you decide to make ears for the figurine, make small cutouts in the hair, as shown below.

Tear off a small piece of mastic and give it the shape as in the photo.

Use the sharp end of a toothpick to make two holes in the piece.

Connect these pits with a groove, while pressing to the side to form the edge of the ear. Make a hole in the bottom of the ear.

Keep improving the form until you are happy with the result.

Apply a wet brush to the ear in the center on the outer side, which will be adjacent to the head, and attach it in place.

Look at the figurine from several sides to make sure the ears are not sticking out.

Use black gel dye to draw eyebrows and eyes.

The figurine is ready!

I hope that now you don’t have a question about how to make a figurine from mastic for a cake and surprise your family and friends with your masterpiece.

Not so long ago, mastic figures began to be used to decorate cakes. But ordering a cake from a professional pastry chef is not always affordable, and there is no way to control the quality of the ingredients used in the baking process and assembling the dessert. In this case, the solution will be homemade decor.

A detailed description of all stages of the work, from choosing the necessary tools and preparing mastic at home to the algorithm for sculpting individual characters, will help even those who last sculpted in school during fine arts lessons to master a sweet sculpture.

Every mother wants to please her child with a beautiful and delicious cake. One way to decorate it is with mastic figures.

Mastic figurines are a great way to please others and show off yourself.

The process of their manufacture includes the following steps:

Preparing sugar mass for modeling.
Direct sculpting of figures.
Drying the finished decor and installing it on the cake.

What tools and materials are needed to create sweet sculptures will be discussed in more detail below.

If you have doubts about whether you will be able to make mastic decor yourself, you can always practice on plasticine first, and when you achieve the desired result, start sculpting from mastic.

What tools are needed for sculpting?

In confectionery stores, your eyes are simply wide open from the wide range of various devices for working with mastic, so in order not to buy too much, it is better to familiarize yourself in advance with what these or those tools are needed for.

Confectioners use mastic for the following purposes:

covering the finished cake to give the surface smoothness or a certain texture (wood, leather, etc.);
for creating flower arrangements (sugar floristry);
creation of miniature sculptures (people, animals, fairy-tale and cartoon characters).

Each type of mastic decor uses its own tools.

So, to cover the finished cake with sugar mass you need to have:

rolling pin for mastic (regular or textured);
silicone mat for rolling out;
and an iron to smooth out the coating to avoid wrinkles.

In sugar floristry the following are used:

cuttings or plungers of flowers or their petals;
silicone weiners to give the workpieces a more natural look;
soft mat for thinning the edges of leaves and petals;
devices (tables) for drying workpieces,
food wire and artificial stamens;
brushes with artificial bristles.

To sculpt figures from mastic, you need to purchase a set of special stack tools:

Dresden stick for depicting facial expressions;
stack-cone (rounded, smooth), which will allow you to make blind cone-shaped recesses;
“shell” tool for sculpting animal paws, shells, human arms and legs;
Stack boning will help create ruffles on clothes or wavy edges
a tool with balls at the ends is used to form eye sockets or other round recesses;
stack-arc for creating smiles on the faces of figurines of mastic people.

In addition to these tools, you will need food coloring for coloring the mastic, brushes (necessarily with artificial bristles) and food glue for gluing the parts of the figure.

Preparing mastic for modeling with your own hands

Before making figures for the cake, you need to prepare the sugar mass for modeling.

Mastic for creating flowers and figures should be pliable so that you can easily work with it, and dry quickly so as not to waste a lot of time drying the figures.

Mastic made from:

1 ½ teaspoons instant gelatin;
40 ml water;
3 teaspoons of liquid honey or syrup (invert, glucose or any other);
2 teaspoons butter or any other solid fat (margarine, coconut oil);
1 teaspoon of liqueur (can be replaced with other alcohol);
500 g powdered sugar;
25 g corn or potato starch.

Cooking technology:

Soak the gelatin for the time specified in the instructions for its use.
Combine syrup, butter and liqueur in a saucepan and heat until smooth. Then add the swollen gelatin and heat until it is completely dissolved.
Sift the powder and starch into a mound and make a funnel in the center. Pour the liquid component into the well and knead the mass like regular yeast dough.
Place the finished mass in a tight bag, greased from the inside with butter, expel as much air as possible and leave the mastic to rest for a day at room temperature. After this you can start sculpting.

The simplest mastic figures for beginners

Simple figurines of animals that do not pretend to be sculpturally similar are sculpted using the same technology:

For the body, roll into a ball and give it a teardrop shape.
The head is just a slightly smaller ball that is connected to the body with a toothpick.
The front and hind legs are sculpted from mastic flagella, which are glued with food glue or raw protein.
Next, ears are sculpted: for a bunny - from two wide flagella-stripes, for a cat or tiger (lion) - pointed triangles, for a bear or monkey - two circles with a depression in the center.
A tail is also formed from a flagellum, but thinner. If necessary, they sculpt a hairstyle, for example, a mischievous forelock for a monkey or a mane for a lion.
The sculpting of the animal figurine is completed by designing the face - nose, mouth, eyes.

It’s easy to make various cars out of mastic that would be appropriate on a boy’s cake.

The simplest option is from a single piece of mastic:

Give a solid rectangular piece of mastic of the appropriate color the shape of a car body.
Make wheel-washers from four balls and glue them in place.
Cut out glass (front, back and side) from thinly rolled white or pale blue mastic and also attach them where needed.
Make headlights from small balls of yellow mastic.
Make the necessary additions, for example, inscriptions or eyes, and the machine is ready.

Master class on how to sculpt children's mastic figures

Children's figures made from mastic are usually heroes of their favorite cartoons. Among the huge number of fairies, little animals, robots and cars, the heroes of the cartoon “Smeshariki” will be ideal for a beginning sculptor. Their modeling is carried out according to a principle similar to that already described.

The hero of your favorite cartoons will delight your baby.

First, the mastic is painted in the desired color (or colors), then a ball-body is rolled out of it, and then proceed as follows:

Bunny Krosh. For the arms and legs, roll two ropes, cut each of them in half and use a stack or a regular toothpick to separate the fingers. Form ears from two wide strips. Next, all that remains is to decorate the face by gluing the eyes from white mastic, and eyebrows from blue mastic, draw pupils and a smile.
Barash. Roll up thin flagella, form curls out of them and glue them with edible glue or egg white. Sculpt the arms and legs in the same way as Krosh’s paws, but making hooves at the ends. Make horns from flagella of darker mastic. Shape the face.
Hedgehog. Roll small balls of blue mastic, give them the shape of needle cones and glue them onto the spherical body. Sculpt the arms and legs like for a bunny. Add glasses, eyebrows, nose, ears, smile and the Hedgehog is ready.
Nyusha. First you need to draw hearts-cheeks and sculpt paws with hooves, as for Barash. Form a snout out of a small ball, making two indentations in it with a toothpick. Weave and glue a braided hairstyle and shape the face.

How to dry mastic figures

Fashioning mastic figures is only half the battle. They still need to be dried properly. When the figures dry unevenly, they can crack, and if the drying temperature is too high, they melt, and the result of long labor cannot be saved. All the intricacies of this process and ways to speed it up will be discussed below.

The simplest and most correct, but also the longest drying method is self-drying at room temperature. Drying the figures, depending on their size, can take up to several days.

Large figures consisting of several parts are usually dried disassembled, and then all the elements are glued together using confectionery glue, raw egg white or vodka. During drying, the figures or their parts should be covered with napkins to prevent dust from falling on them. The napkins will also absorb some of the moisture.

If time allows, then dry the figures only at room temperature.

And if you urgently need to make a decoration from mastic, you can speed up drying in one of the following ways:

Hairdryer Dry the mastic decor much faster by blowing it at a considerable distance with a hairdryer operating in the “Cold Air” mode. In this way, you can dry the figures in just a few hours.
Oven. Using the oven, you can quickly dry flat mastic decorations (for example, letters), but the drying temperature should not exceed 80 - 85 degrees, and its duration should not exceed 5 minutes.
Microwave. The drying principle is the same as in the oven. Figures heated in a microwave oven harden after cooling. But due to the different power of the devices, the drying time will have to be selected experimentally on a small piece of mastic mass.

How long and how are such decorations stored?

Cake fondant figurines can be prepared well in advance of baking and assembling the dessert, but they must be stored properly to ensure they remain soft enough inside and edible. Storage conditions for this decor: sealed container, placed in a cool place away from direct sunlight. The shelf life of the decor, if these rules are followed, will be within 1 - 2 months.

Store mastic figurines in a dark, dry and cool place.

After eating dessert, sweet sugar sculptures can be left as a memory of the special event. In this case, the storage conditions are not so strict: the figures can simply be placed on a shelf that is not exposed to direct sunlight, so that their colors remain bright longer. But eating them after this is not recommended.

If you love to cook and are interested in confectionery innovations, you have probably noticed how popular the Unicorn cake is gaining. To prepare this treat, you can use any base and cream. Just remember your proven recipe for successful cakes, choose a suitable cream that holds its shape well, stock up on modern decorative elements and bring your idea to life. Our article will tell you about all the nuances of the process and give you a couple of ideas.

Holiday Miracle

The unicorn is an amazing animal that is found in many ancient legends and fairy tales. You can read about it in modern literature (for example, these creatures are mentioned in the famous Potter series). Many children, and adults too, adore the cartoon “Friendship is Magic”, some of the characters of which are unicorns. You can see this amazing animal on ancient canvases, family coats of arms and banners.

Unfortunately, such animals never existed in reality. But this gives unicorns an even greater aura of magic and fabulousness. Prepare a cake with a unicorn for a girl’s birthday - and the holiday will turn into a real little miracle. And it doesn’t matter how old the birthday girl turns. A little magic won't hurt.

Cakes

If you are familiar with baking, choose any recipe. You can even make tiers of the cake from different doughs, combining, for example, caramel dough with banana dough, and chocolate dough with cherry dough. But for those who have just begun to master the preparation of desserts, a regular sponge cake may be the best choice.

To prepare it, grind 4 yolks with a glass of sugar until white, beat 4 chilled whites with a mixer with a pinch of salt, adding flour (1 glass) in portions. Connect both parts with a wooden spatula, add a pinch of soda. Pour into a mold greased or lined with baking paper, place in a preheated oven and bake for half an hour. Do not open the door under any circumstances during the first 15 minutes! To make the Unicorn cake even more unusual, you can divide the dough into 2-3 parts and add a few drops of food coloring to each.

Cream for decoration

Custard or sour cream or cream cheese are perfect for layering cake layers. In the summer, you can improvise with creams based on ground berries and fruit purees. In short, to grease the cakes, you can choose whatever your heart desires. But you need to decorate the Unicorn cake with a cream that holds its shape well. A cream made from butter and condensed milk (in equal quantities) is perfect. Whisk the ingredients and cool slightly before using.

Cake decoration

You should decide on the color scheme before making the cake. The unicorn can be made in bright or pastel colors, or you can choose something completely unusual - for example, white marble or a black and gold design.

The easiest way to sculpt a horn and ears is from mastic. If you want the cake to shine, coat some elements with condurin. Eyes can be drawn with a food marker. The cream can be divided into parts and each colored in its own color. Place them in a bag one at a time, then when planting them through the star nozzle you will get melange swirls.

Some useful ideas

The Unicorn cake can be decorated with small candies, confectionery sprinkles, lollipops, macarons and anything else you like. If you don't like fondant, you can make a horn from an ice cream cone. Dip it in the glaze and decorate with cream. You can make a cavity in the middle cake for a surprise. Grease its bottom and sides with melted chocolate, sprinkle with colored dragees (for example, M&Ms).

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