Making A Minion Cake: Step-By-Step Tutorial

hey y'all it's Robert and in today's video I'm making another character cake and this time I'll be showing you how to make a minion I really love making different character cakes but these could be the most challenging because they're always very detailed and then there's a clear point of reference that I'm going for so if I don't do it just right it'll look like I did a very bad job and you really don't want that so to start this cake I'm using six inch vanilla cake layers that I'm torting and leveling I also have a six inch Dome cake that I'm torting and this will be the very top layer of the cake once all these cakes are level in torted I'm adding plain simple syrup to each one when stacking this cake I'm not placing it directly into the middle of the cake board because I need to make sure that I'll have room for the legs that I'll be adding later because of the height of this cake I'm making this a double barrel cake so I'm cutting three dowels the same exact size and then placing those in the cake and then adding a cake board on the very top and because I'll be making Bob look like he's sitting down I'll be adding a little bit of cake to the front for the legs [Music] now I'm adding a crumb coat just to make sure that there will be no crumbs in the final coat that I'm adding later for the final coat I'm using chocolate ganache like always and I'm making this with a three to one ratio of chocolate to cream after the ganache has cooled down a little bit I can now add it to the cake and then I'll smoothing this out with both a cake comb and an acetate sheet because of the curves on the top and bottom of the cake [Music] thank you as the chocolate ganache is setting I'm rolling out modeling chocolate because I'll be completely covering this cake with that and then I have to steam the cake just a little bit because I want to make sure that the bottling chocolate sticks to the cake [Music] so this is where the harder part comes in because I know how to start adding all the defining features that will make this cake actually look like a minion so I'm going to start off by actually working on the overalls and I'm using modeling tools to kind of Define this out then I'm going to move on to the mouth and then I'm just going to Mark the eyes with circle Cutters but I'll be adding more modeling chocolate for these later foreign [Music] to add more detail I'm adding a little pocket to the very front and then I really want this cake to look like he's sitting down so I'm adding more modeling chocolate right at the front to make it look like there's folds in the overalls and I don't want the bottom of the shoes to be completely flat so I'm adding a heel and Treads to it to make the arms unrolling modernly chocolate out into a log then I just have to cut that in half and then shake and blend the arms into the cake [Music] thank you [Music] to make the goggles I'm rolling out modeling chocolate and then using Circle Cutters to make them and then once I add it to the cake I have to add more modeling chocolate around these to make sure that everything Blends in thank you so this is all the modeling I can do at this point so I can now start adding color to the cake this is edible paint that I'm using and I'm adding a diluter to it so I can get it to a consistency that is easy to paint with I'm painting Bob yellow first and then I'm adding the other colors and I'm being really careful with painting because I want to make sure that there will be clean lines between all the colors [Music] foreign to Mark the pupils I'm using different size piping tubes and this is going to help me when I color in the eyes later [Music] now I have to add the arm straps to the overalls so I'm cutting out a strip of modeling chocolate and then I'm going to paint these first before I add them to the cake because I don't want any of this blue to smear onto the yellow [Music] foreign to add more detail to the overalls I'm using a stitching wheel and I'm carefully adding this detail to the cake [Music] and now I can start adding more of the defining features to this cake so I'm using white modeling chocolate to make the teeth and then because the straps of the goggles is just black I'm going to use fondant to do this so this is where I had a mess up because the goggles on a minion are silver and I wanted the goggles on this cake to have a metallic Sheen to it so I tried to use less of this to do this and I just really did not like the way this looked when I was painting it on so I just decided to go back and paint over that with a gray color thank you foreign [Music] this is a detail that I did not notice before with these characters but a minion doesn't have the same color eyes like one is like an orangish color and the other is green so I made sure I did this for the cake and I wanted to Define and detail these a little bit more so I'm going to use black paint to do this [Music] so this cake is almost done and the last things to do are add the buttons and the hands and for the buttons I do have a mode and I'm using black fondant to make these and then for the hands I have black modeling chocolate and I'm going to Define these using modeling tools foreign [Music] enough the hardest thing about making the hands or trying to make them look identical and I do think I got them close enough [Music] so here is the minion cake complete foreign one of my new favorite cakes it looks so identical to the character and it really looks like a toy in person like you really couldn't even tell us a cake so I'll be sure to make more character cakes soon and if there's a specific one that you want to see make sure that you leave it in the comments below and be sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't and until then I'll see y'all in the next video I'm using six units of oops I Did It Again oh not Brittany okay so I can get it to a consistency a consistency all right consistency so I can get it to a good consist consistency oh my God all right so I can get it to a consistency

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Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 24 2023