So for you today I have this cute minion Cake that looks amazing and tastes even better but most importantly easy to do . It's a great cake for a children's party ( or in some cases adults as well , as I won't complain if I got one on my birthday)
What you'll need
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1.5 cups Flour
- 1 & 3/4 Tsp Baking powder
- 2 Eggs
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
- Food colouring
For Decoration
- Black Fondant
- Yellow Fondant
- Brown Fondant
- White Fondant
- 1 cup softened butter
- 3.5 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 tsp milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- Preheat the oven at 170 degrees c
- In a large bowl mix together the butter and sugar until getting a sand like consistency
- Add in the vanilla and eggs and cream together
- Combine the flour and baking powder adding in slowly the milk until getting a smooth mixture
- Now comes the fun part pick a colour of your choice , I picked Blue and Red as I baked two Cakes to stack . Mix in the food colouring adding in few drops at a time , remember you can go darker but can't go lighter
- Pour the mixture in a greased pan and bake for 35 minutes , or until a toothpick comes out clean
- Once it's ready let it cool down
Butter Cream
- Mix together the softened butter and Confectioners's Sugar until getting a smooth mixture
- add in the milk , Vanilla and salt and mix well together until all is creamed
Now let's get Decorating !
- Once your cakes are cooled we are going to stack them , by placing a dollop of butter cream in on one cake and spreading it evenly in a thin layer and stack the second cake on top
- Now we need to crumb coat our cakes , a crumb coat is the first thin layer of butter cream to hold in all the crumbs . Once the cake is crumb coated chill for 10 - 15 minutes
- Now it's time to second coat your cake with butter cream trying to get it as smooth as possible and once this is done put the cake in the fridge
- While the cake is in the fridge so that the butter creams firms up , we start by rolling out our yellow fondant and for my cake I used 400g of fondant. While rolling the fondant always check that it isn't sticking to your surface and if it is put some confectioners' sugar on to your surface
- Get the cake out of the fridge
- Once rolled out , start from one end slowly and lightly rolling the fondant onto the the rolling pin and transfer it onto the cake ( you can find a link down below of my all time favourite Youtube Channel How to Cake it , and you can see how it's done, she's amazing )
- Once the cake is covered you start from the top using a smoother , smoothing the top working your way downward slowly to remove any creases ( remember practice makes perfect)
- now we are going to start the minions eyes , using a circle cookie cutter , cut to white circles out of fondant , and using a smaller cutter cut two brown circles , this will make the pupils of the eyes and by using an even smaller one cut two black circles to complete the eyes and stick them to the cake using a small brush and some water.
- Now for the goggles , combine a small amount of black and white fondant a mix them well together until you get the desired grey colour. Roll the fondant into a thin cylinder shape and wrap around the eyes
- For the goggle straps you need a piece of thinly rolled out black fondant cut into a strip measuring that is enough to cover from the edge of the goggles till the ends of the cake
- With the remaining black fondant , you need to roll it int a cylinder to for the hair and the minion smile
- I then cut out some letters and stars to stick around the cake to right out the birthday boy's name
- That's it you got a lovely minion cake .
Bon appetit & never give up
Courtney
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