Unfinished Unicorn Cake

For quite some time, since I started accepting orders from clients, I had been hoping for somebody to commission me to do a cake with unicorn on it. Last month I had a call and wanted me to do a unicorn cake. I readily accepted it as I was hoping to have a free reign to do a cake, based entirely on my design.

I wanted a whole unicorn made from  cake and that the unicorn will be sparkly silver and there will be lots of rosettes dotted all over the ground and some on the unicorn with vines crawling everywhere and that there will be some butterflies or fairies on some parts of the unicorn. Unfortunately they had their own design in mind and their budget was limited. So I wasn't left with much choice. I followed their design of rainbow cake from the inside and out.

The unicorn cake was commissioned by the mother of a very sweet and nice little girl called Lilly.   Though I was a bit worried because I haven't made an edible version of the unicorn and so it entered my mind to just buy a plastic one or a figurine. But Lilly was very insistent that she only want a unicorn made from chocolate. So I didn't have much choice.

It was a bit tricky to make the horse in between lifelike and fairytale like. Lilly wanted a rainbow coloured mane and tail which glitters. To achieve this effect, I lightly painted some parts of the mane and tail with edible gold paint and I lightly sprinkled edible glitters. The result was very nice. Unfortunately my photo doesn't do justice to how it is in reality.

I will be publishing a photo of the finished cake in my next article.  I am trying to learn how to watermark all my cake photos.