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Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake Tutorial

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This colorful Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake takes no time at all to prepare and makes you look like an expert baker with simple short cuts.

Every since Lydia was a toddler, she loved watching baking shows. Kids Baking Championship, Cake Wars, Cupcake Wars, Nailed It… She loves them all! And even though I cook and bake so often, I am definitely an amateur dessert decorator, but I decided to give it a try. Rather than making everything from scratch, I relied on a few simple ingredients I grabbed at Walmart to make this Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake. Lydia gave me a hand in the kitchen, and I think the two of us together did a pretty great job! Learn how we took some shortcuts to make this cake.

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake slice

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake Ingredients:

  • 1 box vanilla cake mix
  • 4 eggs
  • Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cups
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup strawberry jam
  • 1 container vanilla frosting
  • Colorful meringues

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake Directions:

The first step in my quick, simple unicorn rainbow cake is to preheat your oven to 350º F. Then make the batter. In a large bowl, combine one package of vanilla cake mix, 4 eggs,  water, and oil. This mixture will be very thick. When combined, divide the mixture in half into two separate bowls, and add one blue Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cup to one of the bowls, one pink Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cup to the other bowl.

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake batter

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake pudding

Grease a set of five small cake pans. I bought these as a pack together to attempt to make beautiful layered cakes. Grease each pan with butter, and fill two with the blue mixture, two with the pink mixture. Combine the remaining pink and blue mixtures to make a purple batter, and fill the fifth pan with that mixture. Place your pans in the oven for 15 minutes to bake.

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake pans

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake ready

Remove the pans from the oven after 15 minutes and allow the cakes to cool completely. Using a bread knife, slice the tops off each cake to level each layer. This way, they can stack evenly all the way up {this is an adult job for sure}.

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake baked

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake even

Now it’s time to build your cake! Place one layer at the bottom of a large plate. Next, add a layer of strawberry jam. I purchased the kind int he squeeze bottle for easy application. Use an offset spatula to spread the jelly on evenly. Build each layer until all five cakes are stacked, with the purple layer in the middle. If you find your cakes are not even around the sides, slide your knife around the edge to even them all out.

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake jelly

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake layers

Time for the frosting. Again, because I am not a professional cake decorator, I purchased store-bought frosting to quickly make this Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake. I also purchased a kit that included stick-on unicorn eyelashes and a unicorn cake topper. And because I have absolutely no idea how to make all of those beautiful flowers people pipe onto fancy cakes, I bought pastel-colored meringues to use as the decorations on top of the cake. I think they worked quite well!

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake eyes

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake meringue

My Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake was ready to serve! Start-to-finish, it really didn’t take very long to make, and I thought it looked beautiful considering I am an amateur cake decorator!

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake complete

Head to Walmart where you can purchase all of the ingredients to make this Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake. Look down the snack aisle for Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cups. They contain 0g trans fat per serving and no high-fructose corn syrup. Visit the Snack Pack website for printable family fun games, like a maze, word search, and unicorn coloring sheet. Check out other fun Snack Pack ideas HERE.

Unicorn Pudding at Walmart

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Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake Tutorial

Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake slice

This colorful Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake takes no time at all to prepare and makes you look like an expert baker with simple short cuts.

  • Author: Carrie Wells, Ed.D.
  • Prep Time: 1 hour
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Yield: 8 servings 1x
  • Category: dessert
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Ingredients

  • 1 box vanilla cake mix
  • 4 eggs
  • Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cups
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup strawberry jam
  • 1 container vanilla frosting
  • Colorful meringues

Instructions

  1. The first step in my quick, simple unicorn rainbow cake is to preheat your oven to 350º F. Then make the batter. In a large bowl, combine one package of vanilla cake mix, 4 eggs,  water, and oil. This mixture will be very thick. When combined, divide the mixture in half into two separate bowls, and add one blue Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cup to one of the bowls, one pink Unicorn Magic Snack Pack Pudding Cup to the other bowl.
  2. Grease a set of five small cake pans. I bought these as a pack together to attempt to make beautiful layered cakes. Grease each pan with butter, and fill two with the blue mixture, two with the pink mixture. Combine the remaining pink and blue mixtures to make a purple batter, and fill the fifth pan with that mixture. Place your pans in the oven for 15 minutes to bake.
  3. Remove the pans from the oven after 15 minutes and allow the cakes to cool completely. Using a bread knife, slice the tops off each cake to level each layer. This way, they can stack evenly all the way up {this is an adult job for sure}.
  4. Now it’s time to build your cake! Place one layer at the bottom of a large plate. Next, add a layer of strawberry jam. I purchased the kind int he squeeze bottle for easy application. Use an offset spatula to spread the jelly on evenly. Build each layer until all five cakes are stacked, with the purple layer in the middle. If you find your cakes are not even around the sides, slide your knife around the edge to even them all out.
  5. Time for the frosting. Again, because I am not a professional cake decorator, I purchased store-bought frosting to quickly make this Easy Unicorn Rainbow Cake. I also purchased a kit that included stick-on unicorn eyelashes and a unicorn cake topper. And because I have absolutely no idea how to make all of those beautiful flowers people pipe onto fancy cakes, I bought pastel-colored meringues to use as the decorations on top of the cake. I think they worked quite well!

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