This Minion Cake is the perfect birthday cake for a fan of the Despicable Me or Minions movies!
My son wanted a Minion Cake for his 8th birthday. I love making homemade decorated cakes, but I want them to be as easy as possible! This cake is beginner friendly. No special techniques required!
Minion Cake Materials Needed
2-layer round cake, 8″ diameter
Buttercream frosting, colors listed below
Icing bags, couplers, and round piping tips
Knife or offset spatula
2 regular-mouth canning lids
1 long skewer
toothpicks
Minion Cake Frosting Colors Needed
White: Uncolored buttercream frosting
Yellow: I used Wilton’s Lemon Yellow.
Blue: I used Wilton’s Royal Blue.
Brown: Most Minions have brown eyes. I used chocolate frosting.
If you’re starting with white buttercream, you can use Brown Icing Color. Or you can make your own brown by combining an equal amount of red and green food coloring. (Or an equal amount of red, blue and yellow if you only have the primary colors.)
Green (optional): Bob (from the Minion Movie), he has one green eye. I used Wilton’s Moss Green.
Gray: For the Minion’s goggles. I used a bit of Wilton’s Black in white buttercream.
Black: For the goggle strap, pupils and smile. I used Wilton’s Black. For the darkest black-colored frosting, I recommend using this trick.
Minion Cake Tutorial
Base Cake
Start with a frosted, round cake. If you’re using a white cake, I would recommend covering your cake in yellow frosting.
Since my son wanted a chocolate cake, I started with a cake covered in chocolate frosting.
Goggles and Overalls
Goggles: A regular-mouth canning ring is the perfect size for Minion goggles. Place them on the cake in the desired location. Using a toothpick, mark the inside and outside of the rings in the frosting.
Overalls: Lay a long skewer where you want the top of the overalls to be. Press lightly in the frosting to mark.
Here’s how I placed my markers.
Here’s my cake with the first marks placed.
Eyes, goggle straps and overall straps
Eyes: Using any small circle, position 2 eyes as shown below. A fat marker top is about the right size. Mark in the frosting with a toothpick.
Goggle Straps: Position skewer to make a straight line from outer edge of goggle to edge of cake. The straps are about 1 1/2″ thick.
Overall straps: Using the skewer, mark out 2 skinny overall straps going from the top of the overalls off the sides of the cake. Draw the lines in with the toothpicks, if needed.
Smile: If you start with a yellow cake, you can mark a little curve for a smile using a toothpick.
Here’s my cake with all of the lines marked out in the frosting. You can see the Minion Cake just waiting to pop out!
If you aren’t satisfied with the placement of any of your lines, smooth out the frosting and try again!
Frosting Technique
Use a round piping tip to trace the outline, and then fill the space with zigzags of frosting. Finally, smooth it out with a small knife or offset spatula.
Frosting Color code
Face: yellow
Goggles: gray
Eyes: large part of the eyes: white. Small part of the eyes: brown (or 1 brown and 1 green for Bob). Pupil: small black dot
Goggle straps: black (Check out my tutorial on how to get the blackest frosting here.)
Overalls: blue
Smile: black
Here he is! How cute!
Because I made Bob from the Minion movie, who loved his Teddy Bear, Tim, I made an extra Teddy Bear Cake to sit with him.
Who in your family would like a Minion Cake? Which Minion is your favorite? Comment below!
Happy Baking!
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