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Rainbow unicorn cake



Much to my wife's joy (relief?) we finally had a girl and she's turning 1 already! We randomly decided on a rainbow unicorn theme for her birthday as it was the girliest theme we could think of. Turns out that unicorns and rainbows are very much in season which mafe it easy to find supplies! 

I started by making the unicorn cake topper as it can be made a few days in advance. There are a number of great YouTube tutorial videos which I used as inspiration for my own take on the unicorn. My wife insisted that I make 'anime' eyes but I couldn't see the appeal since I grew up in Africa with little to no Japanese entertainment. I've learnt to follow my wife's suggestions and the unicorn had a pair of anime eyes :) 

I really enjoy problem solving. Below is a picture of an improvised tool to make the eye sockets. I doubt that a .50 cal round has been used in much cake making! 



Here is a picture of the nearly completed cake topper. Still to put blush on the cheeks. 


=====CAKE=====

I wanted to make a rainbow inside the cake so knew it would have at least 6 layers. For this reason I made a light sponge cake rather than a heavy butter cake. 

To be efficient and use less electricity I purchased 2 additional cake pans so that I could cook 3 layers at once. Turned out to be a bad idea as only the cake in the centre of the oven rose nicely at an even height so cakes 4, 5 and 6 were cooked individually after the first average batch! 

Below is a photo of the layers stuck together with butter icing. 




Still much filling in to do because of the wonky cakes. 


I mixed a few drops of red into the butter icing to make pink icing and plastered up the cake. I didnt have enough icing sugar so blended up white sugar which made the icing a bit grainy and hard to smooth properly. O well, it tasted nice :) 

To break up the sides I made simple white clouds which the kids liked. 




In summary it was a fun first girl cake.  I look forward to more of them :) 

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