Friday, 20 July 2012
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Magical Unicorn Cupcake Tutorial
This is a guest post from CakeSpy.
Topping the list of life skills you never knew you needed? How to make a magical unicorn to put on top of your cupcake.
But the days of blithely living your life unaware of how to complete this magical task are over, thanks to my friends at the Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School, who kindly offered up an exclusive tutorial to put on CakeSpy. Not only that, but they were willing do do a tutorial involving a magical unicorn! And don't freak out too much, but in a few days I am going to keep the good times going with a giveaway for some Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School DVDs - so you can get some educaketion at home.
To see the videos, go here, they are broken up into four parts to keep things manageable for you!
To give you a little bit of a 411 on the Paul Bradford Sugarcraft School (don't you want to go there?), here's their mission statement:
Our aim is to provide you with all the information and skills you need to be a successful cake decorator.We have hundreds of hours of step-by-step video courses on our website, with new cake designs added weekly. The courses will teach you a wide range of cake decorating skills, with basic designs to suit beginners to more challenging designs for the experienced. Whilst the cake designs featured in our courses may inspire you, the skills and confidence you will gain are invaluable, allowing you to create cake designs as wild as your imagination.With a wealth of experience including making cakes for royalty in the UK and Prince Albert of Monaco, to running one of the UK's biggest designer cake businesses, Paul Bradford and his team have a lot of expertise which they are happy to share.For more information, and to join our lively cake decorating community come to:- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Also, if after watching the video you decide that you must make this magical unicorn all by yourself, here's a list of the ingredients and tools needed:
Ingredients
- Cupcake (muffin size)
- Sugarpastes (fondant):
- 75g Pink
- 30g Lincoln green
- 20g Fuschia pink
- 15g Jade
- 15g Blue
- 15g White
- White magic sparkle flakes
- Pearl white paint
- Black paint
Tools- Small rolling pin
- Smiley tool (PME)
- Stitchy tool (PME)
- Ball tool (PME)
- Pasta
- No1 Paint brush
...and, fine, one more unicorn picture for the road:
What's the craziest cake you've ever made? Would you be willing to do something like this?
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Comments (3)
While these are really neat looking, I am always disappointed with fondant features because they just taste terrible. At best, it tastes like you are chewing on raw marshmallows, and at worse, is a long way from being edible. They do look so cute, but I wish there was a tutorial on how to make something similar (if not quite so intricate) with frosting, so it tastes good.
I suppose the craziest cake I ever baked was a three-layer brownie cake (brownie batter baked in round cake pans), with coconut pecan frosting in between the layers, and frosted with a German chocolate/sour cream frosting.
@Endrath@xanga - This is true and the reason why I didn't get my wedding cake made with fondant. It looks so pretty, but I wanted my guests, my husband, and myself to enjoy the taste.