MINION CAKE TUTORIAL - KITCHEN

Minion Cake: a sweet tutorial to browse!

Let's start from a premise: making this cake requires patience, time and dedication. But getting a perfect product, worthy of a pastry, is not impossible: arm yourself with patience and elbow grease, the result will be extraordinary!

Step # 1: the base

The edible base of this cake includes:
- 6 cocoa cakes with a diameter of 20 centimeters and a thickness of about 5-8 centimeters, to be stacked on top of each other
- 1 dome cocoa cake, again with a diameter of 20 centimeters.

Step # 2: The creams

Cream 1
Ingrediants
- 400 ml of sugared cream, and of your choice:
- 550 g of milk chocolate, or
- 750 g of white chocolate, or
- 350 g of dark chocolate
Preparation:
- Chop the chocolate coarsely
- Simmer the cream and add the chocolate until it melts, over low heat. Gently mix until you get a homogeneous cream.
- Cover the preparation with plastic wrap and let it rest and cool to room temperature overnight.

Cream 2
Ingrediants
- 200 ml of sweetened cream and of your choice:
- 400 g of dark chocolate + 15 g of butter, or
- 500 g of milk chocolate + 15 g of butter, or
- 600 g of white chocolate.
Preparation:
- Chop the chocolate coarsely
- Simmer the cream and add the chocolate until it melts, over low heat. Gently mix until you get a homogeneous cream.
- Cover the preparation with plastic wrap and let it rest and cool to room temperature overnight.

Step # 3: Garnish the cakes with creams

Use Cream 1 as a glue to "weld" the cakes together. You start with the first base, cream 1, the second, and so on, until you get a tower of cake! Then let it rest for two hours, so that everything fits together well.

Step # 4: Minion glasses

Wrap two 3cm-high pastry rings with the gray sugar paste.
Secure well.
After two hours, you can remove the pastry rings: you will have two rings of sugar paste.

Using the same pastry rings, cut two hollow circles: they will be the base of your glasses.

Using food glue, attach the circles to the rings. Let it dry.

Step # 5: Spread the cake tower with the cream 2

Once your cake tower has cooled and solidified, it's time to sprinkle the surface of the super dome cake with Cream 2 with a spatula. once this is done, let it dry for about 3-4 hours.

Step # 6: The eyes of the Minions

For the eyes of the Minions, you will need 8 circles of sugar paste of different sizes, to be assembled as follows:
- 2 white circles for the whites of the eyes
- 2 black circles for the iris
- 2 smaller black circles for the pupils
- 2 white circles for the reflection in the eyes

Stages # 7: Minions' buttons and pants

For the buttons, make small circles with the black sugar paste. With the blue sugar paste, make small crosses, which represent the threads of the seam.

For the Gru logo, create a small circle of black sugar paste, where you will carve a small slice (like a Pacman!). From a larger piece, cut a rhombus: then connect the two parts with a small piece of sugar paste, as shown in the photo.

Step # 8: Shaping the Minion

Evenly cover the stack of cakes with lighted yellow sugar paste.

Always form two small arms with the yellow sugar paste, which you will attach to the main body with toothpicks.

Step # 9: Fix the glasses and the eyes of the minions

Create two strips of black sugar paste: they will be the elastic band of the glasses. Secure them with food glue. Then fix the previously constructed eyes, again with glue. If that's not enough, use toothpicks.

Step # 10: The Minion dungarees

Form, with the blue sugar paste:
- 2 leg sausages
- 1 large rectangle for the front of the dungarees
- 2 fine bands for the suspenders
- 2 bands for the outside of the dungarees

Form, with the black sugar paste:
- 2 shoes
- 2 hands
- 4-5 fine rolls for the hair

Secure everything with food glue and toothpicks. Final touch: the Gru logo and buttons!

And here is the final result ...