Unicorn Cupcakes

These magical Unicorn Cupcakes made with White Reese's Cups and colorful candy clay will be the hit of any birthday party. With their rainbow colored manes, gold candy horns, and expressive little eyes, these mythical creatures come to life in the sweetest form.

If your child loves unicorns, these cupcakes are sure to make her or him squeal with delight. As I was crafting the unicorns out of White Reese's Cups, I couldn't stop smiling. I fell in love with unicorns too!

These treats are so ridiculously cute and colorful and would be perfect for a unicorn-themed birthday party or any party for that matter.

Who wouldn't love seeing a whole table filled with these magical Unicorn Cupcakes?

The cupcakes each have a Reese's Cup Unicorn on top of a big swirl of frosting. The unicorns are holding candy rainbows.

All the decorations are made out of 2-ingredient candy clay (modeling chocolate that is made using Candy Melts). If you'd like to learn everything about working with candy clay, check out my book, Candy Clay Creations.

You can make your cupcake decorations using fondant but I recommend using the candy clay. It tastes better!

So, let's make some unicorns.

Ingredients

• White Reese's Cups
• white, blue, purple, yellow, pink, green, and black candy clay, recipe on my Chocolate Making Tips page
• white candy melts
• baked white cupcakes -
• cupcakes - I baked mine in Wave White Cupcake Papers.
• white frosting -
  • I used Wilton's Ready to Use White Icing. If you use homemade frosting be sure it is stiff enough to hold a big swirl. Grocery store variety tubs of frosting are not firm enough to hold the peak.
• Vanilla Whoppers
  • These are small white malt balls. If you prefer, you can just roll balls of white candy clay to create the unicorn's hooves.

Supplies

To make these Magical Unicorn Cupcakes you will need quite a few tools (affiliate links below). I realize you may not have all these tools or want to purchase them so I've included alternatives below.

• a clay extruder
  • You can find a stainless steel clay extruder in the clay section of a craft store but you'll want one that is exclusively used for your candy clay. You can hand-roll tiny logs of candy clay to make the unicorn's mane and rainbow, but this inexpensive tool will save you a lot of time. When you buy one, be sure to get a small bottle brush or extra toothbrush to help you clean the candy clay out of the tube of the extruder.
• food use only paintbrushes
  • Buy any paint brush and keep it in your kitchen to use for food projects only.
• edible pink and gold luster dust
  • Be sure you use food-grade luster dust.
• silicone mat - Wilton Easy Flex Mat
  • Or dust a cutting board with a bit of powdered sugar so the candy clay doesn't stick.
• fondant rolling pin
  • Or use a wood rolling pin dusted with powdered sugar.
• wood skewer (you'll use the flat end)
  • Or use the back of a paintbrush that has a round tip.
• small ¾ inch tear drop cutter
  • or use a knife
• small 1 ¼ inch oval cutter
  • or use a knife

You can find some of these items on Amazon. I earn a commission when you use the links below at NO extra cost to you.

Video

Watch the video to see how to make these cute cupcake unicorns.

Tips

• You will need approximately 2 grams of white, 2 grams of pink, and ¼ -½ gram of purple, blue, green, and black candy clay per unicorn.
  • One recipe of candy clay will be more than enough to decorate 24 Magical Unicorn Cupcakes. Make white candy clay and color it to get all the colors you need.
• You'll need ¼- ⅓ cup frosting per cupcake.
• You'll need about 1 gram of melted candy melts per unicorn.
  • I melted about 4 ounces of white candy melts and kept them melted in a Wilton Candy Melting Pot. It worked great so I didn't have to run to the microwave over and over as I worked.
• If you don't want to make cupcakes, you can attach a craft stick using melted candy melts to the back of each Reese's Cup Unicorn to make lollipops instead.

Recipe

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Unicorn Cupcakes

Prep Time

1 hr

Cook Time

0 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

Use colorful candy clay (modeling chocolate) to decorate Reese's Cups to look like unicorns then place them on top of a frosted cupcakes and add a candy clay rainbow.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: decorated cupcakes, unicorn dessert, unicorn reeses cupcakes

Servings: 6

Calories: 480 kcal

Author: Beth Klosterboer

Ingredients

• 6 White Reese's Cups
• 6 ounces candy clay (white, pink, purple, blue, yellow, black, and green)
• food grade edible gold and pink luster dust
• 2 ounces melted white Candy Melts
• 6 white cupcakes
• 2 cups stiff white frosting
• 6 Vanilla Whoppers small white malt balls

Instructions

Reese's Cup Unicorn

1. Unwrap Reese's Cups.
2. Roll out white candy clay and cut out 2 tear drop shaped ears per unicorn.
3. Pinch off a small piece of white candy clay and roll into a unicorn horn.
4. Lightly score across the horn using the back of a knife.
5. Brush gold luster dust over horn.
6. Roll out pink candy clay and cut out 1 oval shaped nose for each unicorn.
7. Brush the ovals with pink luster dust.
8. Make two indentations in the pink oval to create the unicorn's nostrils using the flat end of a wood skewer.
9. Attach one pink oval along one edge of a White Reese's Cup using Candy Melts as edible glue.
10. Let the candy melts dry for a few minutes.
11. Use your finger to smooth out the edge of the oval so that the top edge of the oval slopes down to the edge of the Reese's Cup.
12. Brush more pink luster dust over the oval.
13. Attach two candy clay ears and the horn opposite the pink nose.
14. Roll pink, purple, yellow and blue candy clay into ¼ thick logs.
15. Arrange the four logs into one thick log and squeeze together into a log that will fit into the clay extruder.
16. Fit the clay extruder with a multi hole disc.
17. Extrude the colorful candy clay through the extruder creating long strands of rainbow colored hair.
18. Cut off a 1 ½ inch long section of the hair.
19. Pinch together one end and drape it over the Reese's Cup in between one ear and the horn.
20. Press the candy clay hair onto the back edge of the Reese's Cup. It should stick all on it's own, but if it doesn't, brush some candy melts over it to hold it in place.
21. Cut off the hair on the front of the Reese's Cup if needed so that the unicorn's mane hangs just below the bottom edge of the horn.
22. Repeat adding hair in between the other ear and horn.

Candy Clay Rainbow

1. Roll yellow candy clay into a log and insert it into a clay extruder that is fitted with a small single hole plate.
2. Extrude a long strand of yellow onto your work surface.
3. Do the same creating a long strand of green, blue, and purple candy clay.
4. Press the four strands together then cut off 2 inch long sections and form them into rainbows cutting off the excess as needed to make a nice straight bottom edge.
5. Brush white candy melts over the rainbow and allow that to dry.
6. Turn the rainbows over so that the colorful side is facing up.

Assemble the Cupcakes

1. Pipe a big tall swirl of frosting onto each cupcake.
2. Snuggle a Reese's Cup Unicorn into the frosting near the top portion of the swirl.
3. If needed pipe a bit more frosting behind the unicorn in order to get the Reese's Cup to stay upright.
4. Press two Vanilla Whoppers below the unicorn creating two hooves.
5. Set a candy clay rainbow in the frosting in between the hooves to make it look like the unicorn is holding the rainbow.

Recipe Notes

Store your decorated unicorn cupcakes at room temperature for up to 3 days. 

Be sure to check out all of my festively decorated Cupcakes.

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Beth Klosterboer

Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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