Cakes, DIY, Party Eats, Unicorn
DIY Rainbow Swirl Frosting (Unicorn Cupcakes)
Well executed rainbow swirl frosting sure has the WOW factor. And no one has to know how truly easy it is!
I used this multicolored frosting on my super adorable unicorn cupcake cake for my magical unicorn party.
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Rainbow Swirl Frosting Ingredients:
- White Vanilla Buttercream frosting -> My favorite recipe
- 5 Pastry bags (As I mention in my post “11 Best Birthday Party Hacks for Busy Parents” you can use Zip-locks too – just cut one of the corners.)
- Food coloring. I chose pink, purple, blue, and yellow
- Wilton 1M frosting tip
Divide some of the white frosting into 4 bowls and color them with the food coloring. I chose pink, purple, yellow, and blue to match my party printables theme.
Prepare a piping bag for each of the colors.
Lay a piece of saran wrap on a board.
Pipe about 4-5 inches of each color next to each other (lay the pink and purple next to each other).
Roll the saran wrap around all 4 colors (make sure not to put the saran wrap in between the colors).
Twist both sides like a candy.
Prepare a whole bunch of these little bundles at once so you don’t have to stop in the middle of pipping to make more.
Snip one of the ends and insert the cut end into another pipping bag ready with a pipping tip.
Pick up a cupcake and swirl!!
Here’s a quick video in case that description isn’t quite clear. Don’t forget to sign up to my YouTube channel!
Use this swirl design on unicorn cupcakes with printable wrapper and toppers or make the unicorn cupcake cake:
Unicorn Party Printables
Cupcake wrappers and toppers
Favor Boxes
Birthday Party Packages
Invitations
Cake Toppers
Go check out all the unicorn party DIY posts:
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Can I make the frosting the night before I plan to put it on the cupcakes? Like keep the colors separate overnight. Then the next day let it warm enough to pipe the stripes?
Yes that would work great. The frosting will keep for several days in the fridge. Just use my recipe, it works great.
Oh how fun is this! I love the swirly frosting!!!
These are so cute! I bought the Wilton tri color swirl kit to make neon swirl frosting cupcakes for my Rave NYE theme party.
The nice thing about this method is that you don’t need a special kit…
How cute are these! I loved you video too!
Thanks so much! I’m having fun making them.
This is such a smart idea! I had no idea how people did this. Now I feel like I’m part of a super smart unicorn club! : )
It’s the coolest club around 🙂