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Unicorn Cake for your Dolls!

August 22, 2017 By Brandy 15 Comments

Time to make the doll unicorn cake for your American Girl doll’s Unicorn Café!  These little cakes were so easy to make!  These cakes were inspired by a fabulous coffee shop in Anaheim Hills, CA called Crème & Sugar, https://www.facebook.com/cremeandsugaroc/ OR  http://www.cremeandsugar.com/ .   I first saw pictures of Crème & Sugar’s delightful treats on Instagram @overthetopmommy.  These little cakes look perfect when paired with the unicorn hot chocolate and shakes we did in an earlier post.  My daughters were ecstatic with the finished unicorn cake for their American Girl dolls!

Below is a picture of the cake we used as inspiration for our doll sized cake.  I think we did a pretty close job at copying the details in our doll sized unicorn cake.

For the cake base, I used a paper Mache box found at Michaels.  The base measures about 2-3/4 inches wide by 1-1/2inch high.  Discard the lid for this project.  Save the lid; they make great pie or serving trays.

Use white caulk as your frosting.  Squirt caulk directly onto your box base.   Spread to desired thickness just like you would a real frosting.   Let dry overnight.  For future cakes, just add a little colored paint to the caulk to make a colored frosting.  Sorry, I forgot to get a pic of the base frosted.  See below a picture prior to adding sprinkles.  The cake base looks so realistic!

If desired,  you can cut a cake board for your cake.  I recycled cardboard and covered it in white cardstock paper.  The cakes were glued to the base with E6000.

While the cake base is drying, start making your rose toppings.  I used a rainbow of roses to mimic a unicorn mane.

I used a rose mold that I had purchased from Mold Muse on Esty.  You can find this mold here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/74137943/flower-cabochon-mold-roses-asst-sizes .  I used the middle size rose for the unicorn cake.  That rose measured 12mm or 1/2 inch width by 7mm or 1/4 inch depth.  Pick your choice in polymer clay colors.  The roses were baked at 275° for 14 minutes.

I glued the roses to the cake base with E6000 glue in a wavy mane rainbow pattern.

To make the cake unicorn horn I hand rolled to pieces of elongated clay; one end narrower than the other.  Twist the two pieces together.  Cut to desired length.  You want your horn base to a flat bottom; cut with blade.  This horn measured 2-1/2 inches tall and is 1/2 wide at the base.  Bake at 275° for 16 minutes.  Once cool paint in desired color; we used gold spray paint.

To make the unicorn ears, I rolled out white clay with my clay rolling machine on setting 2.  I used an exacto knife to cut out to ears.  If you have a small bunny cookie cutter you could also use that for an ear pattern.  Cut the base of the ear at a slight angle.  Pinch in the base to give the ear a curve.  These ears measure 3/4 inch high by 1/2 inch wide.  Bake at 275° for 7 minutes.  Let cool.  Once cool, I used a Uniball gold pen to draw in the center of the ear.  The ears and horn were also glued to cake base with E6000.  If by chance the horn base is not level, use a small amount to unbaked clay to position horn and glue down.

*Assembly tip – glue horn in place first, then ears, then roses.  The E6000 glue dries slow so you have time to manipulate placement.  Once everything is glued and dried, use a pencil and lightly sketch out your eyes.  Go over pencil markings with a gold Uniball pen.  Once ink is dry, you can gently erase any visible pencil markings.

 

Our next cake was a unicorn sprinkle cake!

This is the real life inspiration from Crème & Sugar coffee shop! Looks so yummy!

Get out those polymer clay sprinkles that we made in our earlier posts!  See here for the sprinkles: http://brandyshappyhome.com/diy-polymer-clay-sprinkles-2/  I used Weldbond glue to attach the sprinkles.  Spread the glue out in desired locations.  Add your sprinkles, let dry. *This glue works very well with polymer, but make sure to cover completely because it does have a little shine when dry.

Time to dive into these cakes for a sweet taste of deliciousness!  Below is pictured a slice of unicorn cake!

Here is a real life inspiration pic from Crème & Sugar!

I hand rolled out desired colors of clay and stacked.  I used a large blade and cut in a cake “V” shape.  The piece was baked at 275° for 35 minutes.  Once dry add your caulk frosting.  Let caulk dry.  Then use glue and add sprinkles.

A clay needle tool was used to put cake-like markings into the clay.  You could also use an actual needle, safety pin, or paper clip.

We too displayed out cake slice with a candy bracelet!  Thanks for the inspiration Crème & Sugar!

FYI- after cake was completely assembled and dried, I did put a quick spray PYM II sealant over the entire cake.  This is not necessary; old habits die hard and I’m just used to sealing big projects.    PYM II is my favorite sealant for its satin finish, non-sticky, quick drying, and low odor.

Enjoy and craft on!

 

Filed Under: Doll Food, Doll Room, Unicorn Cafe Tagged With: american girl dolls, doll crafts, doll food, polymer clay, the doll room, unicorn cafe, unicorn cake, unicorns

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  1. Jodi says

    February 28, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    Would you sell these? I’m not confident in my crafting ability!

    Reply
  2. Leone says

    August 26, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    Where did you get the cake stand? This is so cute!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm

      The cake stands are actual individual cupcake stands that were sent to me by my friend Karen.

      Reply
  3. Caroline says

    August 23, 2017 at 11:08 am

    For the roses did you use clay as well or was it a different material for those? These cakes turned out sooo cute.

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 23, 2017 at 11:27 am

      Yes, polymer clay Sclupey III

      Reply
  4. Loretta Houben says

    August 23, 2017 at 10:29 am

    Astounding! I don’t think I’ve used that adjective yet. I love all your posts, Brandy. They are well thought out and put together.

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 23, 2017 at 10:39 am

      Thanks so much Loretta! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Laura Mangano says

    August 23, 2017 at 10:06 am

    So so cute!! Love the unicorn inspired cake!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 23, 2017 at 10:13 am

      Thanks Laura! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Linda L. says

    August 22, 2017 at 4:50 pm

    I LOVE your posts! What a wonderfully creative mind you have!!
    How did you get the texture on the cake slice?
    Thank you for sharing so generously with all your followers. You bring such joy to me and my granddaughters with new projects for us to try.

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 23, 2017 at 7:51 am

      Hi Linda L. Thanks so much for the question. I completely forgot to put how I created the cake texture into this post. I have updated the post with the information about the clay needle tool. Thank you!

      Reply
  7. Sophia says

    August 22, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Just amazing! Love love, love the unicorn cake!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 22, 2017 at 3:14 pm

      Thanks Sophia!

      Reply
  8. Linda says

    August 22, 2017 at 10:02 am

    Incredible!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      August 22, 2017 at 10:07 am

      Thanks Linda! 🙂

      Reply

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