KETO UNICORN CAKE -

We recently celebrated my daughter’s 7th birthday. Oh how time flies! Feels like yesterday she was just a little baby… now she’s 7 going on 17!

When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday, she said, “A unicorn cake, mama!” …so of course I had to! This was my first time making a unicorn cake and I wasn’t completely sure what I was doing, but we did it, ya’ll! And it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be… If I could do it, so can you!

3-layer Ube Chocolate Cake with Cheesecake Frosting

Unicorn Cake with Unicorn sign my nephew drew.

Check out how beautiful the inside of the cake turned out!

INGREDIENTS and MATERIALS

CAKE

1 box – Keto Chocolate Cake Mix (10% off with code: LA10)
- Prep as instructed: (4 large eggs, 6 tbsp butter, 1/2 tsp cider vinegar)
1 box – Keto Vanilla Cake Mix (10% off with code: LA10)
- Prep as instructed: (4 large eggs, 6 tbsp butter, 1/2 tsp cider vinegar)
- Add Ube concentrate (10% off with code: ketocoffeeandlipstick-10) and a little purple food coloring or McCormick’s Ube to get that purple ube color we know and love!

FROSTING

3 – 8oz boxes of cream cheese, room temp
3 – sticks butter, unsalted, also room temp
1 cup – Powdered sugar alternative
Vanilla concentrate (10% off with code: ketocoffeeandlipstick-10)
Food Coloring (From this kit, I used Deep Pink and Sky Blue)

You’ll also need:

INSTRUCTIONS

Prep chocolate cake as instructed and pour evenly into two greased cake pans, lined with parchment paper. (Note: I ended up only using one half of the chocolate cake. Saved the other for a later dessert!)
Prep vanilla cake as instructed and add ube concentrate. Pour batter evenly into the two other greased cake pans, lined with parchment paper.
Bake cakes for 20 mins at 350 degrees F, or until toothpick comes out clean.
Allow cakes too cool completely before frosting.

Bald Unicorn?! Def needs some unicorn hair!

To make the frosting, add cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar into electric stand mixer and let it do it’s thang for like 3 mins!
Stop mixer and scrape down sides using a spatula and continue mixing until well combined… maybe another 2 mins or so?
Divide the frosting into 2 separate bowls.
In one bowl, add pink food coloring and mix.
In othe other bowl, add blue food coloring and mix.
Spoon your frosting into 2 decorating bags and frost as you like!
I alternated using pink and blue frosting on the outside of the cake and when I smoothed it out, it gave it this cool marble effect… and turned the cake purple! I ain’t mad about it at all.
For the Unicorn hair, I used tip #19 to get the pretty pink “hair” effect going on.

I hope you enjoyed this sugar free Unicorn Cake as much as we did! Let me know if you make this. Comment below or tag me on Instagram: @ketocoffeeandlipstick