How to Make SIMPLE Edible Unicorn Horns, Ears and Eyes for Beginners and Pros! | Cake Decorating

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hello everybody welcome back to suffix to cakes by mary for this video this is just going to be a a shorter little video i'm going to show you how to make unicorn horns ears and eyes now this is a trend that's been around for a while and i don't see it going anywhere yet and this is more kind of an entry-level beginner's way of making these horns and all the other details a little easier so if this sounds like something that's interesting to you stick around and we'll get right to it after the intro [Music] so these horns and details can be made two ways really you can either use gum paste or you can use fondant with some tylose powder added to it when you add tylose powder to your fondant it makes it more of a gum paste it dries firmer and faster so a little easier to work with with things that need to be basically gravity defying like a long unicorn horn so i added about a teaspoon of the tylose to my fondant my pre-colored i just did a gold a pale gold fondant and what i'm doing is i'm rolling this out into a i don't know what you would call this a snake with tapered ends and a little thickness in the middle now this is a little trick an easier way to make these now you're going to bend it in half put the two ends together use some piping gel just to put along where the two pieces meet to get them to stick together now pinch it together without pinching it too thin and hold on to the tip of it a little lightly and twist the bottom now i think a trick with these horns is that you need to be a little ginger with it i don't know if that's the word but you need to not hold on to it too tightly or you can morph the look of it and set them aside and let them firm up for probably about 30 minutes and then i go in and i cut off that extra piece on the bottom now i'm making a bunch of these i'm only i'm not actually even using them on a cake that i did to show you the cake i'm just showing you how to make the pieces that go on the cake so i'm going to brush with these skewers with some water now these have been firming up like i said for about a half an hour so that you can work with them without denting them and misshaping them as you see when i pick it up it actually holds its shape but it would it would wilt after you know maybe 30 seconds or so so i'm just as i'm sticking this in i'm pushing them in and twisting now you don't need them to go all the way to the top you just need them about halfway in [Music] and i'm using my hand to stabilize it and making sure that they're staying straight see i'm holding it but i'm not holding it real tightly i'm just kind of holding it in place and twisting as it goes in i'm going to set those aside to let them firm up for oh gosh you could even do overnight but i left them for about four or five hours and now i'm gonna move on to the ears the ears are white with a gold center and i used fondant again and i mixed some tylose in it now just mix this in until you feel that it is fully incorporated i'm dusting the surface with a little cornstarch just to keep it from sticking and the way i'm rolling these there's a technique to this because you want your section that is against the cake to be a little thicker so it has more stability so i'm holding it up with my left hand a little bit and pushing and rolling with my right hand right there i didn't show it because while i had stopped doing it but anyway i'm using heart cutters to make the shape of the ears not the entire heart itself but just the pointed end see there i'm showing you how i'm holding it at an angle i'm tapering out the one side see there it's a little thinner on this side than on this side and that part is the part that's going to be sitting on the cake [Music] now use the one that i already cut to mark where i'm going to cut the other one so that they match now these ended up being a little bigger than i needed them to be so i did go in and i trimmed them down a little bit and i'll show you how i did that now i'm making the center part for the ears you don't have to roll this out two different thicknesses this can be just all the same thickness and i'm using a smaller heart cookie cutter after i cut off that edge just so that it's a straight edge and i'm using that to do the same thing just a smaller version i'm just using water brushed on the back to get it to stick to the white part [Music] now since this has tylose in it you don't want to move too slowly but you don't have to move real fast either you just need to make sure that you get them put together and curved in the shape that you need them to be in before it sets up and starts wrinkling now i realized that these this is where i realized that they were a little bigger than i wanted them to be so i was able to peel off the center part of the ears and move it up a little bit and i'm using my heart cutter the big one that i used on the outside to just trim off a little of the extra [Music] and just using my bench scraper to cut off the bottom part that i don't need so they're just scaled down versions of what i did originally and now i'm just setting them up and placing them in an arched shape now if you did not add your tylose in there they would the fondant would just go soft and wilty on you but since you have that tylose in it they're going to hold their shape at this point now i'm making the eyes some more of that gold fondant with tylose in it and i'm just rolling them into equally sized balls to make sure that i have the same amount for each side and then i'm rolling them into a log with a tapered end [Music] that tapered end is going to be your first eyelash now these are about two and a half inches long and then you just use your fingers to mold it into the shape that you want and repeat the same process making sure that you have a mirror image now to make your extra eyelashes i just took two small little balls i rolled them into a teardrop shape tear drop shape and i bent them a little bit and i'm just using water to stick it to the first part now you could apply these directly onto the cake or you can set them aside and let them firm up now i need to make some gold paint to paint the inside of the ears the horns and the eyes it's just my gold luster dust that i like to use with some everclear now you could use vodka or you could use lemon extract they all work i just like the everclear better i find i get a better finish and i can usually do these in one coat you need it to be thick enough to spread while keeping the intensity of the color but thin enough so that it's easy to paint with and i was able to get these done in one coat [Music] [Music] and then do the same thing with the inside of the ear i'm using a smaller pointed brush to get in around those edges now if you can't get it all the way up to where the gold meets the white on the edge don't worry about it nobody's gonna see that because it's easier to do that not put it all the way to the edge than it is to get the gold off of the white which if that ever happens all you really have to do is let it dry and use a brush with just just um the everclear or the vodka and you can brush it off but let it dry first now i'm using a bigger brush for the unicorn horns and i'm using the exact same paint i'm going to speed this up because this took a while but i start with the crevices the inset part and then i go and do the outside you just want to make sure that it's all covered this did take me two coats on some of these horns because honestly i was running out of gold just ordered some today i was running out of gold and i needed it to spread so i want to make sure i got at least one good coat on and then i went back and i touched up on it where it needed it [Music] [Music] now these dry very fairly quickly the gold dries really fast the alcohol evaporates and all you're left with is the gold so as long as your horn is set up firm enough then you could have these painted and ready to go within a half an hour after the dry time for the horns [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i'm going to show you some examples of where i have used horns that i made this way in the past and it the lovely thing about these is you can use the same technique for cupcakes if you would like i hope you liked it and if you did please like share subscribe and we'll catch you next time [Music] you
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Channel: Sophisticakes By Mary
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Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)
Published: Tue Sep 21 2021
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