Planning a party? Want to add a sprinkle of magic and a whole lotta color to the table? These Unicorn Cookies are straight-up dreamy. They’re pastel, sparkly, and totally irresistible—like edible fantasy vibes for your next birthday bash, sleepover, or tea party. They’re super fun to make with little ones, and even more fun to eat (just ask my kiddo… and my inner child).
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Unicorn Party Cookies
This recipe was inspired by our obsession with all things whimsical and sweet—like these Teddy Bear Cookies and Bookworm Cookies, which are just as adorable. Unicorns are always in season (hello, imagination!), but they’re especially loved for spring birthdays, baby showers, and glittery celebrations where fun is the main course.
💖 Why This Recipe Works
- Magical & bright: These Unicorn Cookies shine with dreamy pastel colors and sprinkles.
- Customizable: Mix up colors, add glittery toppings, or shape them your way.
- Perfect for parties: A must-have for birthdays, sleepovers, or any unicorn-themed celebration!
🥚 Ingredients
- White fondant – Perfect for twisting into cute little unicorn horns. It holds shape well and looks super polished.
- Violet gel food coloring – Adds that bold, dreamy color to the buttercream without watering it down.
- Silver food dust – Total glam move. Gives your horns that sparkly “fresh from a fairytale” glow.
For the complete list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
🌈Substitutions & Variations
Wanna mix it up or make it work with what you’ve got? Here are a few playful swaps and magical upgrades:
- No fondant? No problem. – Try mini twisted marshmallows or pipe unicorn horns using stiff royal icing or white chocolate.
- Vegan it up – Use a plant-based butter and egg replacer (like a flax egg or store-bought egg-free magic), and your cookies will still be soft, dreamy, and totally unicorn-approved.
- Color swap! – Switch up the frosting color to pastel pink, mint, or baby blue. Unicorns don’t follow rules, and neither should your frosting.
🔪How To Make Unicorn Cookies
To make the Unicorn treats:
Sift dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt) in one bowl
With an electric mixer, beat butter from your butter dish, egg, sugar, and vanilla on medium speed. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
Form a cookie dough sphere and wrap it with plastic. Refrigerate for one hour.
Remove from fridge and let sit for 5 minutes.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll cookie dough on a floured surface. Cut into circles with a cookie cutter.
Place each cookie on a lined baking sheet, about an inch apart. Bake for 12-14 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
To decorate the Unicorn Party Treats:
Beat butter, icing sugar and milk with an electric mixer (starting at the lowest speed, making your way up to the highest). These ingredients will make up your buttercream frosting.
Tint the buttercream with violet gel food colouring and mix until buttercream is completely coloured.
Roll white fondant into 1-inch spheres. Roll each sphere into long strips (about 3-4 inches long) then fold slightly. Start wrapping both ends and twist: this will form your unicorn horn.
Brush with silver food dust.
With an offset spatula, frost each cookie.
Top with sprinkles and one fondant horn. Your unicorn cookies are ready to eat.
👩🍳 Expert Tips
- Chill that dough – Cold dough = clean cookie shapes. Don’t skip the fridge nap!
- Use gel food coloring – It gives bold color without messing with your buttercream texture (no runny unicorns, thanks).
- Dust those horns like royalty – A little silver food dust goes a long way for that magical sparkle.
FAQ's
Absolutely! Make it 1–2 days in advance and chill. You can even freeze it for up to a month.
Nope! Twisted marshmallows, candy canes, or piped white chocolate work too.
Keep in an airtight container at room temp for up to 3 days. If it’s warm, store in the fridge so the buttercream stays cute.
💖 Serving Suggestions
- These unicorn cookies are a dreamy addition to dessert tables—serve 'em alongside pastel cupcakes or rainbow fruit skewers.
- Wrap them up in clear bags with ribbon for sweet party favors.
- Hosting a sleepover or tea party? Let the kids decorate their own cookies with frosting and sprinkles for a build-your-own unicorn cookie bar!
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Unicorn Cookies Party Treat
Ingredients
For the cookies
- 1 ¾ cup flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1 stick butter softened
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
To decorate these Unicorn treats
- 1 stick butter softened
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 tablespoon milk
- Violet gel food coloring
- 4 oz. white fondant
- Silver food dust
- Sprinkles
Instructions
To make the Unicorn treats:
- Sift dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt) in one bowl
- With an electric mixer, beat butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla on medium speed. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
- Form a cookie dough sphere and wrap it with plastic. Refrigerate for one hour.
- Remove from fridge and let sit for 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll cookie dough on a floured surface. Cut into circles with a cookie cutter.
- Place each cookie on a lined baking sheet, about an inch apart. Bake for 12-14 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
To decorate the Unicorn Party Treats:
- Beat butter, icing sugar and milk with an electric mixer (starting at the lowest speed, making your way up to the highest). These ingredients will make up your buttercream frosting.
- Tint the buttercream with violet gel food colouring and mix until buttercream is completely coloured.
- Roll white fondant into 1-inch spheres. Roll each sphere into long strips (about 3-4 inches long) then fold slightly. Start wrapping both ends and twist: this will form your unicorn horn.
- Brush with silver food dust.
- With an offset spatula, frost each cookie.
- Top with sprinkles and one fondant horn.
- Your Unicorn Cookies are ready to eat.
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