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Three Ways to Make a Unicorn Cake
Unicorn Mold web page
'No-Bake Backwards Cake' page
Information on the ZANDA PANDA Unicorn Mold in bulleted form.
ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware
Unicorn Mold
The Unicorn Mold from ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware is extremely versatile. It’s perfect for:
○ Traditional baking of cakes and breads.
○ Cold-molded desserts like ice cream cakes and gelatin.
○ ‘No-Bake Backwards Cakes™’ which kids can make all by themselves in three easy steps with edible clay and their favorite fillings (recipe and instructions included).
○ Arts & crafts and children’s projects to exercise your creativity and
imagination.
The ZANDA PANDA Unicorn Mold is easy and fun to use. You can:
◊ Create festive unicorn appliqués to decorate lollipops, cupcakes, cheesecake, etc. with chocolate, confectionary coating, fondant, pastillage, royal icing, marzipan or edible clay.
◊ Use it as a cookie mold for shortbread or sugar cookies, or make pastry dough appliqués to add a special touch to tarts or pies.
◊ Use your Unicorn Mold for arts & crafts projects, to create appliqués of cast paper that can be used for note cards, party invitations and scrapbooking. Or use polymer clay appliqués to embellish trinket boxes, hair ornaments or just for rainy-day fun. Papier mâché, plaster, salt dough and other craft materials can also be used. The creative possibilities are endless!
◊ Find step-by-step instructions, recipes and ideas for fun party activities on the packaging and at the company website.
ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware is designed by award winning sculptor Sandra Lira and is made of flexible, FDA approved, 100% food-grade, platinum cured silicone, with a temperature range of -40 to 446 °F (-40 to 230°C) and is oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe. Available in vibrant spring green, dimensions are 9.25” x 5.5”
Make a ‘No-Bake Backwards Cake™’ in 3 easy steps:
1. PAINT or PRESS a shell into the Unicorn Mold using chocolate, confectionary coating or edible clay
2. FILL & CHILL with layers of your favorite fillings
3. DEMOLD
Recipes and easy directions on package and at website!
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Below is essentially the same information in paragraph form:
ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware
Unicorn Mold
The Unicorn Mold by ZANDA PANDA Specialty Bakeware can be used for much more than just baking. This innovative mold can be used for traditional baking, cold-molded desserts, arts, crafts and children‘s projects, as well as ‘No-Bake Backwards Cakes™’. With this simple, yet novel method, kids can make a cake all by themselves in three easy steps with edible clay and their favorite fillings (recipes and instructions on package and website).
You can also use it as a cookie mold, or to decorate desserts such as cupcakes, lollipops or cheesecake with appliqués made of chocolate, confectionary coating, fondant, pastillage, royal icing, marzipan or edible clay. Or make pastry dough appliqués to add a special touch to your tarts or pies.
Arts & crafts uses include cast paper that can be used for note cards, party invitations and scrapbooking. Or use polymer clay appliqués to embellish trinket boxes, hair ornaments or just for rainy-day fun. Papier mâché, plaster, salt dough and other craft materials can also be used. The creative possibilities are endless! Step-by-step instructions, recipes and ideas for using the mold for desserts and crafts can be found on the packaging and at the company website.
Designed by award-winning sculptor Sandra Lira, the Unicorn Mold is made of flexible, FDA approved, 100% food-grade, platinum cured silicone, with a temperature range of -40 to 446 °F (-40 to 230°C) and is oven, microwave, freezer and dishwasher safe. Available in vibrant spring green, dimensions are 9.25” x 5.5”
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A little more detailed info on how to use the Unicorn Mold for cake-making:
Three Ways to Make a Unicorn Cake
There are three ways to make a cake with the Unicorn Mold (we’ve also baked bread in it with great results) and it can be used for cold-molded desserts and arts & crafts projects as well. Following is some quick info on some of the basic ways to use the molds. More detailed directions, recipes and ideas can be found on the packaging and at zandapanda.com.
TRADITIONALLY BAKED CAKES
Heavier textured cakes are great for this mold, however, boxed cake mixes or your favorite ‘scratch’ recipe will work beautifully as well. If your cake is very light-textured and fluffy, freeze before demolding.
For boxed cake mixes, use two boxes and prepare batter as usual. Place mold on cookie sheet to fill, bake and transport cake to and from your oven. Bake at 345°F for an hour and twenty minutes, or until cake no longer “jiggles” and a toothpick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean.
Demold:
To remove cake from mold, place serving plate over open mold. Invert mold and plate together. Starting at rim, gently loosen the mold from the detailed areas of the cake and carefully demold.
“NO-BAKE BACKWARDS CAKES”
CHOCOLATE or CONFECTIONARY COATING SHELL
The two things to remember when using chocolate or confectionary coating are to make sure that air is not trapped in the recesses (lowest points) when brushing the coating into the mold and to make sure that your coating is thick enough that you can’t see the mold underneath, particularly at the highest points in the mold.
Allow chocolate or confectionary coating shell to cool and solidify before filling and demolding. Recipes and instructions can be found on the packaging and at zandapanda.com. The gold decoration on the cake pictured is “Luster Dust”; edible ‘metallic’ and opalescent powders that come in a wide range of colors.
EDIBLE CLAY
The final way to make a cake is great for kids and since there is no heat involved, they can make the complete cake all by themselves. There are three recipes for edible clay on the website, one which is healthier, containing peanut butter, powdered milk and honey, and two which contain the usual ingredients for desserts (sugars, fats and/or chocolate).
The basic method for kids is just to press the edible clay into the mold to create a shell, fill with layers of their favorite goodies, chill, and then demold their masterpiece. They can then decorate with tubed icing, shot, sprinkles, etc.
This method of pressing the material into the mold can also be used for fondant, marzipan, etc. and to make appliqués to decorate other desserts, make cookies and for arts & crafts projects (please see the “Making cookies with a cake mold” section and Cast Paper demo at zandapanda.com for more info).
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