Minion Cake Tutorial | No Fondant Minion cake | How to Make a Despicable Me Minion cake

 Love the Minions? 

 Learn how to make this Easy Minion Cake for your birthday party or any other special occasion.

 Minions are adorable! These small fictional yellow creatures from the Despicable Me series make people like me crazy. Everything about them is hilarious. 

 Who could resist this scrumptious yellow guy!

 

I used a round cookie cutter to mark the goggles of the minion before frosting. 

To make gray frosting for the goggles mix a little black gel color with white frosting. 

To make black frosting mix some cocoa powder and more gel colour with the gray or white frosting. Mixing cocoa powder makes it much easier to get a nice deep black color.

 

Minion Cake Ingredients 

 For Cake 

•  1 cup all-purpose flour 
•  1 tsp Baking powder 
•  1/2 tsp Baking soda 
•  1/4 tsp Salt 
•  4 Eggs 
•  1 cup Powdered Sugar 
•  1 tsp Pineapple essence 
•  1/4 cup Melted Butter 
•  Yellow Gel Food Colour 
•  1/4 cup Milk 

 For Frosting 

•  1.5 cups Heavy Whipping Cream 
•  3 - 4 tbsp Sugar 
•  1 Tsp Vanilla extract 
•  Simple Syrup - as required 
•  Yellow, Blue and Black Gel Food Colour

How to make Minion cake - Step by step pictures 

 Line a cake tin with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 180°C. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Mix well and set aside.

Beat the eggs with an electric hand mixer until foamy for about 2 - 3 minutes.

Then add the sugar gradually and continue beating for about 4 - 5 minutes.

Pour in the melted butter, gel food colour and vanilla extract.

Mix gently until combined.

Gradually add in the dry ingredients and milk.

Gently whisk the ingredients until the mixture is smooth and free of lumps.

Pour onto the prepared baking pan.

Bake the cake at 180°C for 35 - 40 minutes.

Carefully run a knife around the edges of the pan, invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Take chilled whipping cream, vanilla extract and icing sugar in a bowl.

Whip the cream to stiff peaks.

Cut the cake into three layers.

Place the first layer on a cake board and soak with simple syrup.

Spread a layer of frosting.

Place the second layer on top and soak with simple syrup.

Spread a layer of frosting.

Repeat with the third layer.

Crumb coat the cake.

Smooth the sides and top and chill for 30 minutes.

For minion decoration, colour the remaining whipped cream with yellow, blue and black gel food colours.

For black add some cocoa powder and more black gel colour.

Pipe the goggle circles with the grey whipping cream.

Fill with yellow whipping cream above and below the goggles.

Pipe the blue minion dress around the cake.

Fill the eyes with white.

Draw eyes, mouth and hair with the black.

Refrigerate for atleast 30 minutes before serving.

Minion Cake Tutorial | No Fondant Minion cake | How to Make a Despicable Me Minion cake

Recipe Category: Desserts
Author: Abarna Gopinath
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Baking time: 35 - 40 minutes

Ingredients

For Cake
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Baking soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 4 Eggs
• 1 cup Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp Pineapple essence
• 1/4 cup Melted Butter
• Yellow Gel Food Colour
• 1/4 cup Milk
For Frosting
• 1.5 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
• 3 - 4 tbsp Sugar
• 1 Tsp Vanilla extract
• Simple Syrup - as required
• Yellow, Blue and Black Gel Food Colour

Instructions

Line a cake tin with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 180°C.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Mix well and set aside.

Beat the eggs with an electric hand mixer until foamy for about 2 - 3 minutes.

Then add the sugar gradually and continue beating for about 4 - 5 minutes.

Pour in the melted butter, gel food colour and vanilla extract.

Mix gently until combined.

Gradually add in the dry ingredients and milk.

Gently whisk the ingredients until the mixture is smooth and free of lumps.

Pour onto the prepared baking pan.

Bake the cake at 180°C for 35 - 40 minutes.

Carefully run a knife around the edges of the pan, invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Take chilled whipping cream, vanilla extract and icing sugar in a bowl.

Whip the cream to stiff peaks.

Cut the cake into three layers.

Place the first layer on a cake board and soak with simple syrup.

Spread a layer of frosting.

Place the second layer on top and soak with simple syrup.

Spread a layer of frosting.

Repeat with the third layer.

Crumb coat the cake.

Smooth the sides and top and chill for 30 minutes.

For minion decoration, colour the remaining whipped cream with yellow, blue and black gel food colours.

For black add some cocoa powder and more black gel colour.

Pipe the goggle circles with the black whipping cream.

Fill with yellow whipping cream above and below the goggles.

Pipe the blue minion dress around the cake.

Fill the eyes with white.

Draw eyes, mouth and hair with the black.

Recipe video here!

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