How to make a "Unicorn" cake?

If you like to cook and are interested in confectionery novelties, you probably noticed how popular the "Unicorn" cake is. To prepare this treat, you can use any base and cream. Just remember your proven recipe for successful cakes, choose a suitable cream that keeps the shape well, stock up-to-date decorative elements and embody the idea in life. Our article will tell you about all the nuances of the process and will prompt a couple of ideas.

Festive miracle

The unicorn is an amazing animal, which 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 Potteriana). Many children, and adults, too, adore the cartoon "Friendship is a miracle," some of whose characters are unicorns. You can see this amazing animal on old frescoes, tapestries, canvases, clan arms and banners.

Unfortunately, in reality such animals never existed. But this gives unicorns an even greater aura of magic and fairy-tale. Prepare a cake with a unicorn for the girl on her birthday - and the holiday will turn into a real little miracle. And it does not matter how many years the birthday girl is performing. A little magic will not hurt.

Crusts

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

For its preparation, pound 4 yolks with a glass of white sugar, whip with a mixer 4 refrigerated protein with a pinch of salt, portionwise adding flour (1 glass). Combine both parts with a wooden spatula, add a pinch of soda. Pour into a form greased or lined with baking paper, send to a preheated oven and bake for half an hour. Do not open the door in 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

For interlayering the custard is perfect for a tinctured or sour cream, Swiss meringue or cream cheese. In summer, you can improvise with creams based on grated berries and fruit purees. In short, to lubricate the cakes, you can choose whatever your heart desires. But to design the cake "Unicorn" you need a cream that keeps the shape well. Excellent cream from butter and condensed milk (in equal amounts). Whisk the ingredients, cool slightly before use.

Cake Decoration

With the color gamut should be determined even before you make a cake. Unicorn can be performed in bright or pastel colors, and you can choose something completely unusual - for example, white marble or black and gold design.

Horn and ears are easiest to fashion from mastic. If you want the cake to shine, cover some of the elements with kondurin. Eyes can be painted with a food marker. The cream can be divided into parts and painted in its own color. Fold them in a pouch in turn, then when you crochet through the nozzle-star receive melange vortices.

A few useful ideas

Cake "Unicorn" can be decorated with small sweets, confectionery powder, candy on a stick, pasta macaroons and everything that pleases. If you do not like mastic, make a horn from the ice cream horn. Dip it in the glaze and decorate with cream. On average, the cake can make a cavity for a surprise. Lubricate the bottom and sides of melted chocolate, fill in colored dragees (for example, M & Ms).