How To Make A Minion Cake

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I'm not sure this buttercream minions cake counts as a continuation of my fauna cake series, simply I'k going to say it!

This buttercream minions cake is made with moist banana cake layers and bootleg buttercream frosting. It's simply as cute as it is succulent!!

Making this Buttercream Minions Block: Pace-past-Step Tutorial

Let's walk through each step of this cake together to make sure information technology turns out equally amazing equally possible! I've shared a video beneath, or you tin can check out my in-depth video tutorial on my YouTube channel.

I figured it might be helpful to know what tools I use too, then I've shared a list below.

Non all of these are mandatory, just they brand the process a lot easier. If you don't have all these things on hand, feel free to improvise and work with what yous have.

• 4, 6-inch Cake Pans
• Spinning Cake Stand
• 10-inch Cake Board
• Small Offset Spatula
• Bench Scraper
• 5 Small Pipe Bags
• 1 Large Pipe Bag
• Frosting Coupler
• 2 Small-scale Round Piping Tips (like a Wilton x)
• Small Flat Piping Tip (similar an Ateco 48)
• Big Round Piping Tip (like a Wilton 1A)
• Small Acetate Sheet (I cut these down into smaller squares with scissors)
• Electrical mitt mixer or stand up mixer

Step 1: Bake and Level the Banana Cake Layers

The first pace is to work on the banana cake layers. Line 4, half-dozen-inch round block pans with parchment rounds and grease with non-stick blistering spray or homemade cake release.

If you lot don't accept four cake pans, the concoction tin can sit at room temperature for a few hours. Bake as many layers at a time as you can.

Divide the batter evenly between the cake pans and bake for 28-32 minutes.

Remove the cakes from the oven and attack a wire rack. Run an offset spatula around the edge of the pan to help release the block layers from the pan. Allow the cakes cool fully in the pan.

Once cooled, level three of the cake layers with a serrated knife and leave ane unleveled. Identify one of the block tops in a bowl and prepare aside to make our minion's anxiety afterwards (you can "taste test" the other ii cake tops).

If yous make these in advance, wrap and freeze them at this point. Have them out of the freezer about xx minutes earlier yous desire to assemble the cake.

Step 2: Make the Buttercream Frosting

So information technology's fourth dimension to make the buttercream frosting for this cake! I like to use an American buttercream considering I call up information technology'due south the easier to decorate with and I dear eating it.

If yous desire to use a less sweetness frosting, I'd recommend making 1.5 batches of my Swiss meringue buttercream or my hybrid buttercream.

Wait to color the buttercream until the cake is nibble coated. Cover the frosting with plastic wrap to prevent crusting, then prepare bated.

Footstep #3: Stack and Frost the Cake Layers

Stack and frost the block layers on a 10-inch, grease-proof cardboard cake circular or flat plate.

Use a dab of frosting to help stick the first block layer to the board. Identify the commencement cake layer off-heart. You'll need a bit of room to add on the minion's legs.

Spread an fifty-fifty layer of buttercream between each cake layer with an offset spatula. Repeat with the remaining block layers, placing the unleveled cake layer on tiptop.

Spread a sparse coat of frosting effectually the block and legs to fully cover everything. Smooth using a demote scraper.

Add together a couple teaspoons of buttercream into the bowl with the block pinnacle nosotros gear up aside earlier. Stir the mixture with a fork until the it's fully combined and has a consistency similar to block pops. It should exist easy to handle and shape.

Shape ii legs and feet and place them in front end of the cake.

Then arctic the cake in the fridge (twenty minutes) or freezer (ten minutes) until the frosting is firm to the affect.

This makes it easier to get a perfect second glaze of frosting.

Pace 4: Color the Buttercream

While the cake chills, color the buttercream! Use gel food coloring if possible to color the buttercream. Liquid food coloring can throw off the consistency of the frosting and won't make as vibrant of a color.

While the cake chills, color the buttercream! Place 1/three loving cup of uncolored buttercream into a small pipe bag fit with a large round tip or cutting opening about 1 cm wide and set aside.

Color 2/three cup of buttercream brilliant blue with royal bluish gel food coloring to make our minion's overalls. Place in a small-scale piping bag fit with a flat piping tip (like an Ateco 48) and prepare aside.

Make 2 Tbsp of buttercream brown using warm chocolate-brown gel food coloring to brand our minion's irises. Place in a small piping bag fit with a round piping tip (like a Wilton ten) and set aside.

Color ane/3 cup of buttercream gray using a tiny driblet of black gel nutrient coloring to brand our minion'south spectacles. Place in a pocket-sized piping bag fit with a big round piping tip (like a Wilton 1A) and set aside.

Make 2/iii cup of buttercream black with black gel food coloring to make our minion'southward shoes, hands, and glasses. Identify in a modest piping purse fit with a coupler and a round piping tip (like a Wilton ten) and prepare bated.

Colour the remaining buttercream yellowish with yellow gel food coloring. Identify in a large pipe bag fit with a large round piping tip and prepare aside.

Step v: Decorate this Buttercream Minions Block

Cover the block in a thick layer of xanthous buttercream. Make sure yous salvage a little bit to pipe our minion's arms afterward! Smooth using an offset spatula and acetate sheet.

Chill the cake until the frosting is firm to the touch. Then it's fourth dimension to sketch out our little minion.

Employ a circle cutter to outline where the lenses should get (I used a circle cutter that was about 2-inches wide) and use an offset spatula or butter knife to trace out where the glasses strap should go.

Then trace out where you lot want the overalls to exist.

And and so it's onto the pipe! Pipage on the overalls first. Apply the shine side of the piping tip to pipage bluish frosting around the base of operations of the block and over the minion's legs.

And then add the minion'south arms with yellowish buttercream like in the photo below.

Use blackness buttercream to pipage the minion's hands, overall buttons, and shoes. I also piped on a small smile with black buttercream using a very small round piping tip.

The last step is to make our minion'south spectacles! Pipage the lenses with white buttercream, then outline them with grey buttercream.

Employ brown and black buttercream to make the irises and pupils. Then pipage blackness buttercream effectually the cake to look like the strap.

And voila! Several hours later, you have an adorable buttercream minions block 🙂

Minions Cake Substitutions and Swaps

Below are some swaps and substitutions that can be made in this recipe.

• Overripe Bananas – If y'all don't have overripe bananas on hand, bake your bananas at 300 F for nearly 15 minutes or until the skins of the bananas are blackness.
• Lemon Juice – Fresh lemon juice really enhances the banana flavor in this recipe and prevents the mashed bananas from browning. Information technology can be left out if needed though!
• All-Purpose Flour – This recipe turns out best with AP flour, but you can apply a cup for cup gluten complimentary flour blend in its place if needed.
• Unsalted Butter – If y'all just accept salted butter, on paw you tin use information technology in place of the unsalted butter in this recipe. But be certain to omit the salt that this recipe calls for. You can also use vegan butter in its place!
• Baking Pulverization / Baking Soda – This recipe uses both leavening agents, and both are important to help this recipe rise correctly! Make sure both types of leavening agents are properly measured and haven't expired.
• Buttermilk – Y'all can also use whole milk, full-fat yogurt, sour cream or alternative yogurt or milk (almond, soy, oat) if yous're dairy free.
• Eggs – If you don't have eggs on hand or can't eat eggs, you can effort using flaxseed eggs.

Tips for Making the All-time Buttercream Minions Block

• Employ gel food coloring to colour the buttercream. Liquid food coloring tin can throw off the consistency of the frosting and won't make as vibrant of a colour.
• Ingredients at room temp mix together meliorate! Set out any cold ingredients alee of time.
• Properly mensurate your flour(spoon into the cup measure, then level) or use a kitchen scale to measure the dry ingredients.
• Blindside your cake pans on the counter before putting them in the oven. This brings any air bubbles that are trapped in the batter to the surface.
• Level the room temperature or thawed cake layers with a serrated knife to make them easier to stack (but get out 1 unleveled!!).
• Use an acetate canvas to make the frosting super smoothen. I buy them in big squares on Amazon and so cut them into smaller pieces with pair of scissors to make them easier to employ.
• Make this buttercream minions cake vegan or dairy free if needed! Use your favorite type of dairy free milk to replace the buttermilk and heavy cream and use vegan butter sticks in place of the butter. For the eggs I recommend using an egg replacer like this.

Making This Buttercream Minions Block in Advance & Storage Tips

Make the block layers in advance and freeze them. It breaks the procedure up and makes it more outgoing.

Brand the frosting ahead of time or salvage any leftover frosting! Information technology can exist stored in an closed container in the fridge for upwardly to a month, or in the freezer for upwards to 3 months. Be certain to give it a good stir once it thaws to go the consistency squeamish and smooth again.

A frosted block can final in the fridge for upward to a calendar week or in the freezer for up to a month. The buttercream locks in all the moisture, keeping the cake fresh and succulent!

If you cut into the cake and have leftovers,employ any remaining frosting to cover the cut section to keep it moist and store in the fridge for upwards to a week.

Let Me Know What Yous Call back!

If you make this minions birthday cake, I'd honey to hear what you think! Permit me know by leaving a rating and annotate beneath.

If y'all program to share on social media, tag me @chelsweets and #chelsweets so that I can see your astonishing creations!

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Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Fourth dimension thirty minutes

Additional Time 2 hours

Total Time 3 hours

Instructions

Banana Cake Layers

1. Make the banana cake layers beginning. Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C and grease and line 4, half-dozen-inch cake pans. Set aside. If you don't have 4 block pans, the batter tin sit down at room temperature for a few hours. Bake as many layers at a time every bit you tin can.
2. Mash iii big bananas with either a fork or a mixer and stir together with ii tsp of lemon juice. This prevents the bananas from browning. Set aside.
3. In a big bowl, whisk three cups flour, one tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, and 1 tsp salt together. Prepare aside.
4. Use a hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment to beat out one loving cup of butter, i loving cup of granulated sugar, and ii/three loving cup chocolate-brown sugar together. Mix on a high speed for about three minutes. The mixture should become lighter in colour equally air is whipped into it. Use a spatula to scrape the sides and bottom of the basin if you notice butter is collecting there.
5. Mix in 3 large eggs and ii tsp of vanilla extract on a medium speed. Scrape the sides and bottom of the basin as needed.
6. Mix in one-half of the dry out ingredients on a depression speed until just combined.
7. Add in 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk and mix until incorporated, then mix in the remaining dry out ingredients on a low speed. Exist careful not to over-mix the concoction in one case you lot've added in the flour. The concoction will be on the thick side.
8. Mix in the mashed bananas on a medium speed until only combined.
9. Dissever the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake for 28-32 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the heart comes out (relatively) clean.
10. Remove the block pans from the oven and prepare on a wire rack. Run an offset spatula around the edge of the pan to assist release the cake layers from the pan. Let the cakes cool fully in the pan.
11. Once cooled, level three of the cake layers with a serrated knife and leave one unleveled. Identify ane of the cake tops in a bowl and set aside to make our minion'south feet later (you lot tin "sense of taste examination" the other ii cake tops).

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

1. Equally the cake layers bake and cool, brand the vanilla buttercream frosting.
2. Trounce iii cups of butter on a medium speed for xxx seconds with a paddle attachment or hand mixer until shine.
3. Add in 1 Tbsp vanilla extract and 1 tsp salt and mix on a low speed.
4. Gradually mix in eleven cups of powdered sugar on a low speed. Halfway through add in 1/3 cup of heavy cream to make the frosting easier to mix.
5. Mix on low until the desired consistency is reached. If the frosting seems too thick, add together in additional cream (1 Tbsp at a time). If the frosting is too sparse, add in more powdered sugar (ane/4 cup at a time).
6. Expect to colour the buttercream until the cake is crumb coated. Cover the frosting with plastic wrap to forbid crusting, and so set aside.

Minions Cake Assembly

1. Stack and frost the cake layers on a ten-inch, grease-proof cardboard cake round or flat plate. Use a dab of frosting to help stick the first block layer to the board. Place the first block layer off-center. Yous'll need a scrap of room to add on the minion's legs.
2. Spread a thick, even layer of buttercream between each block layer with an starting time spatula.
3. Repeat with the remaining cake layers, placing the unleveled cake layer on acme.
4. Spread a thin coat of frosting around the block and smooth using a bench scraper or acetate sheet.
5. Add a couple teaspoons of buttercream into the bowl with the cake top we set aside before. Stir the mixture with a fork until the it'due south fully combined and has a consistency like to cake pops. It should be easy to handle and shape.
6. Shape ii legs and feet and place them in front end of the block.
7. Chill the cake in the fridge (20 minutes) or freezer (x minutes) until the frosting is business firm to the touch. This makes it easier to get a perfect second glaze of frosting.
8. While the cake chills, color the buttercream! It's going to audio crazy, but all the frosting can exist colored in one bowl. Nosotros start with the lightest colors and work our manner to the darkest, and then it works out great!
9. Place 1/3 loving cup of uncolored buttercream into a minor piping bag fit with a large round tip or cut opening near ane/two-inch wide and ready aside.
10. Color two/3 cup of buttercream bright blue with royal blue gel food coloring to make our minion'southward overalls. Place in a small piping handbag fit with a flat pipage tip (like an Ateco 48) and prepare bated.
11. Color 2 Tbsp of buttercream brown using warm brown gel nutrient coloring to brand our minion's irises. Place in a pocket-size pipe handbag fit with a circular pipage tip (like a Wilton 10) and set aside.
12. Colour 1/3 cup of buttercream gray using a tiny drop of blackness gel food coloring to make our minion's glasses. Place in a small piping bag fit with a large round piping tip (like a Wilton 1A) and ready aside.
13. Color two/3 cup of buttercream black with black gel nutrient coloring to make our minion'south shoes, hands, and glasses. Place in a small-scale piping bag fit with a coupler and round piping tip (like a Wilton x) and set aside.
14. Color the remaining buttercream yellow with yellow gel food coloring. Place in a large pipage bag fit with a large round pipage tip or cut with an opening almost 3/iv inch wide and gear up bated.
15. Comprehend the cake in a thick layer of yellow buttercream. Make sure you save a lilliputian bit to pipe our minion's arms later on! Smooth using an offset spatula and acetate sheet.
16. Chill the block until the yellow frosting is firm to the bear upon. So it's fourth dimension to sketch out our little minion. Use a circumvolve cutter to outline where the lenses should go (I used a circumvolve cutter that was about 2-inches wide) and use an offset spatula or butter knife to trace out where the spectacles strap should go. Then trace out where you want the overalls to be.
17. And and then it'southward onto the piping! Pipe on the overalls first. Use the smoothen side of the piping tip to pipe blue frosting around the base of the cake and over the minion'south legs.
18. Then add on the minion's arms next with yellow buttercream. Apply black buttercream to pipe the minion's hands, overall buttons, and shoes. I also piped on a small smile with blackness buttercream using a very small-scale round piping tip (Wilton 5).
19. The last step is to make our minion's glasses! Pipage the lenses with white buttercream, then outline them with grey buttercream. Employ brown and black buttercream to make the irises and pupils. And then pipage blackness buttercream around the block to wait similar the spectacles strap. And voila! Several hours later, you have an adorable buttercream minion cake 🙂

Notes

if you want to make a shorter, more traditional shaped minions block, this recipe can be used to brand iii, 8-inch block layers. The block will be shorter and wider, but notwithstanding just as beautiful! I'd recommend piping the face on elevation of the cake, and covering the sides of the cake with blue buttercream.

Tips for Making the Best Buttercream Minions Cake

• Ingredients at room temp mix together improve! Set out any cold ingredients ahead of fourth dimension.
• Properly measure out the flour (spoon into the cup measure, and then level). Or meliorate withal, apply a kitchen scale to measure your dry ingredients.
• Apply a scale to weigh your cake pans as you fill up them. Make sure each pan has the aforementioned amount of batter then that block layers bake to the same tiptop and bake more than evenly.
• Bang the cake pans on the counter before putting them in the oven. This brings whatsoever air bubbling that are trapped in the batter to the surface.
• Level the room temperature or thawed cake layers with a serrated knife to make them easier to stack (only leave 1 unleveled!!).
• Arctic the block layers in the freezer for about 20 minutes before assembling the cake. It makes it so much easier to stack and frost them!
• Use an acetate sail to make the frosting super polish. I buy them in large squares on Amazon and then cut them into smaller pieces with scissors to make them easier to employ.

Making this Minion'due south Cake in Advance and Storage Tips

• Brand the block layers in advance and freeze them. It breaks the procedure up and makes information technology more approachable.

• Make the frosting ahead of time or save any leftover frosting! Information technology tin exist stored in an closed container in the fridge for up to a calendar month.
• This frosting can also exist stored in the freezer for upwards to 3 months! Only be sure to give it a good mix in one case it thaws to brand information technology nice and smooth again.
• A frosted block tin final in the fridge for up to a week or in the freezer for a month. The buttercream locks in the wet and keeps the block fresh and delicious.

Nutrition Information

Yield

24

Serving Size

one
Amount Per Serving Calories 667 Total Fat 35g Saturated Fatty 21g Trans Fat 0g Unsaturated Fat 12g Cholesterol 117mg Sodium 336mg Carbohydrates 88g Fiber 1g Saccharide 71g Protein 4g

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