I wanted to come up with super easy adorable unicorn cupcakes that I could make super quick for a unicorn baby shower. I had a lot of options, but they were all so hard! Making this unicorn cupcake that looks like a stuffed unicorn toy on top of the cupcake though?! Perfect.
And if you’re looking for more than just a cupcake to take your baby sprinkle to the next level, check out these great unicorn baby shower tips and ideas. Your shower will be on point. Get it? Ha!
Back to this adorable unicorn cupcake, though. It’s like a baby’s toy just perched there on top of the cupcake–and it’s made of marshmallow fondant, which is the BEST kind of cupcake topping on the planet.
Instructions1. Start by mixing your cake mix, butter, eggs, and water with a hand mixer on high until well blended.2. Pour mixture into cupcake tins, and bake according to box instructions.
3. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely.4. Separate your icing into two equal portions.5. Color one portion of icing pink with the red gel food coloring and the other blue.
6. Fill one side of your piping bag with pink icing and the other side with blue icing and place large star tip on the end.7. Frost each of the cupcakes in a single layer moving form outside to inside the cupcake. Set the cupcakes aside while you make the unicorns.
8. To make the unicorn heads, break off 12 small end-of-thumb sized pieces of white fondant and roll each of them into balls. Press and roll one end to a more narrow section, about half the size of the other end. Repeat until you have 12 heads. Set the heads aside.
9. To make the unicorn bodies, break off a piece of white fondant about the size of 3 thumb-ends and roll them into balls, then flatten the center. Repeat until you have 12 bodies. Set the bodies aside.
10. To make the legs, break off a piece of white fondant about the size of 1/2 thumb-ends and roll them into balls, then flatten the center. Repeat until you have 48 legs.11. Press the 2 legs on each side of each body.12. Press one head on one end of each body.
13. To make the hooves, pinch off 48 small 1/8 end-of-thumb sized balls of orange fondant and roll them into balls, then flatten two sides. Repeat with all 48 hooves. Press a hoof on the end of each leg.14. With a toothpick, dip it in the black gel food coloring and then draw the eyelid/eyelashes onto each unicorn face.
15. With a second toothpick, poke two nostrils on the end of each unicorn face for a nose.16. Pinch off a tiny piece of orange fondant and roll it into a slight cone shape with a rounded shape.
17. Pinch off a tiny portion of pink, blue or purple fondant and roll it out into a long, very thin snake.18. Pinch off a small portion of pink, blue or purple fondant and roll it out into a long, thin snake.