![]() If you are making your cake more than a day in advance, be careful. Did you notice the Minion cupcakes! So easy and so funny. His overalls were blue fondant rolled out and cut to size and then I used a rolling tool with teeth on it to make the stitches around the straps and bib etc. Pro tip: Use gloves! Otherwise you end up with black hands. If you buy white icing and have good gel food colouring (I use Wilton), you can dye small pieces of fondant however you want. I did the goggles with a combo of brown, black, grey and white icing. There ends up being a seam in the middle of the minion’s head but that is conveniently covered by his goggle band. ![]() I iced the cylinder first and then the round head separately with yellow fondant. I shoved three dowels down the top of the cake (measure beforehand so you can cut the dowel to size and avoid having wooden sticks poking up the top of your cake) for stability. I did two crumb coats and froze the cake for five minutes in between icings to help things set up nicely. I find that if you refrigerate or freeze the cake it is easier to ice. I used confetti cake mix, which I have to say is not the most stable cake mix in that it is soft and crumbles easily. I used four 8 inch rounds and then a half-ball mould to make the rounded top. Here are some pictures to get us started: Food is a huge component of my planning and I like to get food that not only ties in the colours of the movie but little ideas that are part of characters and plot lines. Those are my main ways of tying a theme together. I started a Pinterest Board and looked first at cake and loot bag ideas. I asked her months before this what theme she wanted and it didn’t even take her a second to scream “Minions!” We may have been watching the movie at the time… K is a hardcore Mr Gru fan and loves minions and all their gibberish and hilarity. Also, just knowing that Russell Brand does the voice of Dr Nefario makes me happy. They are quirky, smart and fearless and that is something I want my young girls to see. I love Steve Carrell (the voice of Mr Gru) and I adore his adopted daughter characters. Did that sentence make sense?Īnyhoo… Despicable Me is one of the few movies I like and let my kids watch. I had been dreaming up and pinning ideas for months, so not going big wasn’t an option. Keep in mind I was 1800 months pregnant when I pulled this off, so it was a feat of strength. Here we are in the end of November and I still haven’t told you all about it. My middle baby turned three over the summer, and what with Baby J’s arrival, it got a little hard to post about her party.
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