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How to Make Fondant Unicorn Eyes for Cakes

August 19, 2020 by Priya Leave a Comment

This tutorial is on how to make fondant unicorn eyes. I am writing this page to share with you, the steps I took to make this gorgeous and dreamy pair of unicorn eyes for my recent unicorn birthday cake. 

A two tier white unicorn cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier

The cake itself was a 2 tier cake, and I had the unicorn’s mane going though the top of the cake and coming down to the second tier in a curve that ends on the side of the cake. And since the front of the cake was rather empty, I decided to make a pair of large, round, twinkling eyes for the unicorn. 


How to Make Fondant Unicorn Eyes

These were the main supplies I used to make the eyes:

  • Eyes template – I drew mine freehand guided by images I searched on the internet. 
  • Fondant – I used Satin Ice fondant in white and black. For the purple part of the eyes, I used Americolor Electric Purple food color.
  • Extruder tool – I used the extruder tool for the black outlines of the eyes and the eye lashes.
  • Oval cutters – I used the oval cutters for the white twinkle dots in the eyes. 

And this was how I made the fondant unicorn eyes:

  • First of all, I got the unicorn eyes template ready. As I mentioned above, I drew mine freehand. This was the template. If you notice, the eye has both top and bottom lashes, but my final fondant eyes only has the top lashes. I decided not to proceed with the lower lashes as I felt that the top lashes were sufficient to make the unicorn eyes cute and dreamy.
Eyes paper template

  • I then traced each component of the eye onto parchment paper and cut them out. 
Paper templates cut into different sized ovals

  • Once I had the templates ready, I started cutting them out in fondant. I started with the white fondant. I rolled it thin and cut out two pieces of white ovals. 
Paper template on rolled fondant
2 oval shaped white fondant cut outs
  • And then, I cut out the purple ovals.
Oval paper template on purple rolled fondant
2 purple oval fondant cut outs
  • And finally, the black ovals:
Oval paper template on brown fondant
2 oval brown fondant cut outs
  • Once I had the oval shapes in white, purple and black ready, I went on assembling them. Before attaching them with shortening, I arranged them first so that I get the order and position correct. 
2 oval brown fondant cut outs on slightly larger purple oval fondant cutouts
A set of 2 oval fondant cutouts in white, purple and dark brown stacked together
  • Once I was happy with the position and shape, I attached them together with shortening.
A set of 2 oval fondant cutouts in white, purple and dark brown stacked together

Attaching the fondant unicorn eyes to the cake

  • The next step was to place the eyes on the cake. The challenge here was to make sure both the eyes were aligned horizontally. To ensure this, I attached the eyes based on rough estimation first and then adjusted the position by measuring the gap between the top of the cake and each eye.
  • And since the eyes were attached using shortening, adjusting their position on the cake was not a problem.
Using a ruler to measure the spacing from the top of the cake to the fondant eyes on the top tier cake
Using a ruler to measure the spacing from the top of the cake to the fondant eyes on the top tier cake
  • This was how the eyes looked like after measuring and alignment.
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier

  • The next step was to complete the outline for the eyes. I used an extruder tool with a small round disc to produce thin black strips of fondant.
A long thin strip of brown fondant

  • To attach the black strip, I applied shortening all around the unicorn eyes and carefully attached the black strip all around each eye.
Applying shortening to fondant unicorn eyes
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier
  • I used a spatula to ensure the fondant strip is closely attached to the unicorn eyes.
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier
Using a palate knife to adjust the outline of the fondant eyes on the front of a two tier cake
  • Once the outline was done, I went on to complete the eye lashes. I used the eyes template earlier as a guide and marked tiny dots on the cake where each lash would begin and end. 
Marking the cake for fondant eyelashes

  • Before attaching the lashes, I added another layer of the black fondant strip to the top portion of the eyes. 
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier

Adding the eye lashes

  • And then, I attached the lashes.
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier

  • The final step for making the fondant unicorn eyes to to add the white eyeball and twinkle to each eye. For this purpose, I used oval plunger cutters in two sizes. I cut the shapes out of thinly rolled white fondant.
Rolled white fondant with oval cut outs. Oval plunger cutters are in the background

  • The larger ovals went on first, followed by the smaller ones:
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier
  • And this was how the completed eyes of the unicorn looked like:
A two tier white cake with 2 large fondant eyes on the top tier

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

And if you would like to read on how I decorated the rest of the unicorn cake, click on the image below for step by step tutorial and pictures:

Poster for unicorn birthday cake

Happy Decorating 🙂 

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