Whether you’re looking for cupcakes or a big multi-tiered birthday cake, unicorns are a great theme. With their beautiful colors and ethereal appeal, unicorns make a stunning design for unicorn cakes.
You can let your creative side go wild with the decorating, using pink, blue, and green icing for a stunning effect that’s delicious too. Decorate the horn with a light spray of edible gold glitter, and the result will be quite magical!
If you or your loved one is a huge unicorn fan, you’ll find there’s an enormous range of unicorn cakes to choose from. You can keep things simple with a round cake, simply placing a horn on the top and decorating it with flowers and color.
The key is to capture the delicate rainbow beauty of the unicorn, whatever type of cake you decide on. To give you some awesome ideas, we made a list of our favorite unicorn cake designs.
1. Pretty Unicorn Cake
Made from sponge cake and vanilla buttercream, this amazing cake was designed by Jenna Rae Cakes back in September 2016. Being wonderfully simple and easy on the eye, it has become an extremely popular cake design, therefore we had to include it on our list!
2. Unicorn 4-Tier Cake
This 4-tier cake with a beautiful rainbow and cloud looks like something staright out of My Little Pony. The exquisite icing design with a fading color scheme makes this cake delicious to behold.
3. Unicorn Fondant Cake
Beautifully made unicorn fondant birthday cake with rainbow, stars, clouds, and baby unicorn detailing. It will be nice to be able to give out the unicorn figurines as children’s party favors.
4. Unicorn Zombie Cake
A creepy but amazing zombie cake designed by Sugar Shack. The ultimate Halloween party piece for unicorn lovers!
5. Happy Unicorn Cake
Out of all our picks, this has to be one of our favorites! The design is so complex and pretty that it would be our dream birthday (without going over the top). The attention to detail is amazing! It looks like there is nowhere that this happy unicorn would rather be.
6. Unicorn-Harry Potter Cake
Combined with the best wizard and magical animal, this Unicorn and Harry Potter-themed cake is awesome! This is the perfect way to meet the wishes of someone who just can’t decide what their favorite theme is.
7. Unicorn Best Friend Cake
This cake by Ocake is perfect for the little girl who imagines their best friend is a unicorn. We love the heart details on the unicorn’s feet. The cake itself forms a rainbow world for the two to share.
8. Unicorn Rainbow Slide Cake
This cake by Ooshies Cakes isn’t complex with its use of paper decorations, but that candy rainbow slide makes the cake standout and is sure to delight whoever is lucky enough to receive it.
9. Unicorn Horn Cupcakes
If you prefer to do individual cupcakes as take-home favors, this is the perfect yet simple way to capture the theme. Pastel colors with a distinctive unicorn horn immediately bring the enchanted animal to mind.
10. Unicorn Artistic Masterpiece Cake
True cake makers who pride themselves in producing a work of art every time they bake can challenge themselves to match this true icing masterpiece from KalitePasta. It is amazing what can be achieved with icing.
11. Colorful Unicorn Cake
The color just pops in this cake by Santana Eighteen with a repeating pattern. While there is a tendency to do unicorns in pretty pastels, this bright color cake stands out as fun.
12. Unicorn Party Cake
The joyful unicorn on top of this cake looks like they are here for a party. There is something about this cake that is just festive and will add a little extra happiness when its time to blow out the candle.
13. Unicorn with Rainbow Sprinkles Cake
The rainbow sprinkles used to ice the lower layer of this two teir cake just look delicious and vibrant. Combine this with the flowing, flowery icing hair and the golden horn, and you have a classic but special cake.
14. Unicorn Tie Dye Cake
We love that the unicorn theme doesn’t end with the icing in this cake by Life Love Liz. The mottled, tie dye food coloring of the spounge is an extra treat when you cuut the cake as it continues the color scheme of the unicorn icing.
15. Unicorn with Wings Cake
It’s the wings that rise out of the back of this stunning cake that make it stand out. It adds an element of fairy magic not necessarily seen on other unicorn cakes.
16. Over Indulgent Unicorn Cake
We love that the unicorns that top this playful cake look like they have overindulged a little this birthday. It makes it the perfect cake for the birthday boy or girl who plans to overindulge to mark the passing of another revolution around the sun.
17. Unicorn Toy Castle Cake
This cake looks more like a toy castle than an edible treat, which will appeal to some young people. But be prepared for them to be disappointed that they didn’t get a real toy unicorn castle.
18. Sophisticated Unicorn Cake
Looking for unicorn cake ideas that look sophisticated and don’t feel like you have chosen a childish theme? This sophisticated cake with exquisite colorful unicorn hair is the perfect choice for an adult unicorn design.
19. Unicorn with Butch Hair Cake
Unicorn cakes aren’t just for girly girls. This cake uses bolder colors and gives its unicorn topper a classic butch mohican haircut. This cake manages to be fun, unusual, and on theme.
20. Unicorn Feast Cake
This cake is cute, but also a little challenging. It looks as though you have slaughtered a unicorn and are cutting up its rainbow body to eat! It is made by a vegetarian baker determined to raise awareness and makes a fun idea for older birthday parties.
21. Unicorn Crying Cake
Not every event demands a cheery cake. This crying unicorn cake is beautiful but poignant with its colorful tears.
22. Black and Gold Unicorn Cake
Not everyone likes the pastel colors associated unicorns, some people prefer a more dramatic and elegant color scheme, like this stunning black and gold cake.
23. Uneven Layers Unicorn Cake
The uneven layers and unusual colors of this cake make it stand out. This feels like a great cake for an older child that is passing out of pretty fun girly things, but still loves unicorns.
24. Unicorn Batman Cake
Can you mix unicorns with your favorite superhero to make a unique theme? Of course, you can. Check out how well this Unicorn-Batman cake turned out.
25. Unicorn 3D Cake
If you enjoy making gravity-defying 3D cakes, why not try something like this? It kind of looks like the unicorn is wearing your favorite Dunkin’ Donut as a skirt.
26. Unicorn with Multi-Colored Mane Cake
This cake is just proof that the best unicorn cakes are all about the main. This multi-colored icing main looks fun and delicious, as does the small ice-cream icing cup at the side.
27. Unicorn Over-The-Top Layered Cake
This extra tall three-tiered cake feels decadent and over-the-top in all the right ways. The business works thanks to the attention to detail. It feels like a sleepy night scene in a unicorn nursery.
28. Unicorn Fair Cake
This cake is perfect for a unicorn-themed party, because the mini unicorns decorating this cake certainly seem like they are having a good time. The cake itself is simple with details marzipan decorations.
29. Unicorn and Smarties Cake
We love the way that smarties pour out of the center of this cake like unicorn eggs as a special surprise when it is cut open. The multi-colored sponge to match the thematic icing is also a nice touch.
30. Unicorn Shaped Cake
Bakers who prefer to shape their entire cake rather than use toppers will be inspired by this unicorn figure cake. The piped icing is one decoration option, but you are only limited by your imagination.
31. Unicorn Simple Tiered Cake
This layered cake is simple in its design but stunning in it execution. Each layer is unique and brings something different to the overall aesthetic. The melting colors stand out.
32. Unicorn Starry Night Cake
We love the way this cake combines a gorgeous dark stary night in deep purple with bring pink unicorn details. The result is something memorable and pretty, but not too pretty to eat!
33. Simple Piping Unicorn Cake
It is amazing what you can achieve with just piped icing! It is the care and attention to detail that the decorator has used that makes this cake stand out. The large floral piping for the hair in purple looks stunning.
34. Unicorn Punk Chic Cake
This unicorn punk chic cake is perfect for a young person finding their own style and still passionate about unicorns. There is a lot of space for individual expression in unicorn designs.
35. Unicorn Cone Coke
We love the way this baker has decorated with vertical stripes rather than traditional horizontal stripes and the unique color scheme. The upside-down ice cream cone matching the unicorn horn is a nice touch.
36. Unicorn Cake with Matching Cupcakes
The pink with gold icing on this cake is effortlessly stylish. The cute cupcakes tie in easily by using the same pink icing matched with an edible gold unicorn horn. They make ideal party favors.
37. Chocolate Unicorn Cake
Just because you ask for a unicorn cake doesn’t mean that you don’t want it in chocolate! Chocolate brown can be the basis for an excellent color scheme for a delicious-looking cake.
38. Unicorn Thief Cake
This is another unicorn cake for a fan with a sense of humor. The decorated has made it appear as though the unicorn topper abandoned its spot in the center of the cake to eat the chocolatey insides. They have then fallen asleep by the side of the cake with a full tummy.
39. Unicorn and Bubbles Cake
Something about unicorns and bubbles just works and this cake decorator has combined them expertly in luscious pastels. The unicorn design on the side of the cake is gorgeous in its detail and too good to eat when the cake is cut.
40. Black Unicorn Punk Cake
For something completely different, embrace the punk rock theme with this darkest black cake with jagged chocolate spiked hair with edible decorations. A perfect take on the modern unicorn theme.
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