Trim the horns. Use scissors to carefully snip off the pointy ice cream cone tips above the two main rings. If you’re using Muddy Bites, you can skip this step. Set them aside. Cake decorating brush - Again, this was a food-grade brush. I used it to paint the gold dust onto the horn. This is not required if you choose to airbrush the horn or spray paint it. Ever wondered how to make two tone frosting? With Cake Décor’s range of striped frostings you don’t need special equipment to make beautiful multi-coloured swirls on your cupcakes. There’s no messing around with piping bags, or piping tips – our tubes come with an attached star piping nozzle so you’re ready to go!

If applying sprinkles, do so immediately rotating the pretzel rods to coat all sides. Larger sprinkles work best if placed individually. Divide frosting between 3-7 bowls depending on how many colors you are using, and color the frosting using gel food coloring for the most vibrant colors. Sugar and Oil–I recommend regular granulated sugar. When it comes to the softest cakes and cupcakes, use vegetable oil (or another neutral-flavored oil) in place of butter. The reason is that oil stays liquid at room temperature, for an ultra-moist and tender crumb. It makes a huge difference! The leftover frosting should be stored in the fridge for no more than a month. But you can freeze your buttercream frosting for up to 3 months in an airtight container. Increase speed again and whisk until you get a light, fluffy color (it will look curdled at first, just let it continue to stir).In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract. Beat on medium speed until the eggs and oil are well incorporated and the batter is lighter in color, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the bowl as needed. On the other hand, the mini ice cream cones have a much more plain flavor since it’s just simple wafer cones. They’re not filled, but that also means it’s easier to coat them with chocolate. However, you’ll have to snip off a part of the bottom of the cones, unlike with the Muddy Bites. You could leave them full-sized but they’d be BIG horns. I have a huge love of all things sprinkles and unicorns. In fact, my 40th birthday party was a rainbow unicorn sprinkle party and these Unicorn Cupcakes would have fit right in.

These easy unicorn cupcakes are so cute. Use these tips to help recreate them and make them your own. Vanilla–For perfect vanilla cupcakes, use real vanilla extract. The flavor is so much better than imitation vanilla. Perfect for theme parties. Bright, colorful pastel frosting swirls and plenty of gold sprinkles make these unicorn cupcakes the perfect dessert for unicorn-themed birthdays, bridal showers, and baby showers, too.Have you ever seen a piñata cupcake? These are kind of like that, but they spill unicorn love all over instead of candy. Divide some of the white frosting into 4 separate bowls and color them with the food coloring. I chose pink, purple, yellow, and blue to match my party printables theme.

I wanted to do something a little more special for the vanilla cupcake because this fabulous unicorn cupcake icing deserves that. Don’t worry, the steps are easy to follow. Once fully dried, use a food paintbrush to brush silver luster dust on the horns. Set them aside in an airtight container until ready to use. They will last well for at least a week in an air-tight container. Pipe about 4-5 inches of each color next to each other (lay the pink and purple next to each other).Keep it simple. The horns look great with the white chocolate coating and silver finish, but if you want to keep it simple, just add them to your cupcakes as-is. They will look a little more “natural” but still great. Simply stop squeezing and lift up the tube away from the cake to create your tip – and cover any messy bits with sprinkles, it tastes so good nobody will care 😊