Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2017 | Page 13

Step 13b:
Roll lines of pastel
Make some unicorn ears
coloured fondant (about
Step
12c:
by rolling two small balls
5-6 cm long). Place them
of white fondant, pinching With a damp paintbrush
closely or overlapping
a little at the tip of the
fix the ears and the horn
before rolling flat with a
ears. Use the leaf shaping into place on the hood.
rolling pin. You should
tool to flatten the ears
Paint them gold with some have a stripy piece of
interiors.
edible gold paint.
fondant). Cut a length from your
stripy piece to create
rainbow tassels for the
unicorns mane. Leave
a square section for the
babies ‘blankie’. Finish the
edges of the black ie by
thinning and smoothing
them with a large ball tool
on a flower mat.
Step 13c: Step 13d: Step 14a: Step 14b:
Use a damp paint brush
to glue the mane in place. Dampen the baby’s hand
and leg – gently create
some drapes and folds
in the blanket piece and
secure into place. Use a small oval cutter
and cut an oval shape
from thinly rolled grey
fondant. Use a stitching
tool and run a line down
the centre of the oval to
simulate a zip. Make a
button flap from rolling a
tiny oval shape log and
flattening it. Roll a tiny ball
to flatten as a button. Fix the oval piece to the
belly of your unicorn baby
with a damp paint brush.
Add the button flap and
button. I