My nephew requested a Minion Cake for his birthday made of chocolate cake. I couldn’t say no to the sweet boy so I did some research and figured out how to get a minion vibe but the easiest way possible because baby I am not a cake decorator, that’s for sure!

Was it the most perfectly done minion cake? No. Did my minion cake do the trick and am I proud of it? Oh definitely yes! But more importantly, it was SO FREAKING DELICIOUS!!!

I used the chocolate cake recipe from Recipetineats because you didn’t need buttermilk and it used boiling water. The boiling water trick for chocolate cake really does elevate the cake and the moistness!

The yellow icing is Sally’s Baking Addiction Swiss Meringue Buttercream recipe. And let me tell you, this was my first time ever making a Swiss meringue buttercream and it was so easy to do with Sally’s recipe! I would recommend reading the whole blog post before making it because she has incredible trouble shooting tips that came in handy! I felt so confident with her guide on making it and it tasted amazing! It was so smooth and delicious and not overly sweet like traditional American buttercream!

I will say, though, that I didn’t have enough of the Swiss meringue buttercream to do the decorations. I only had enough icing for the yellow bit. This possibly could’ve been because it was a chocolate cake with light icing and I had a hard time making sure all the dark chocolate didn’t show through so perhaps I needed a thicker layer than normal. Or I’m just a novice on cake decorating. Either way, I ended up making a quick American buttercream for the blue border and the minion face decor.

I knew black icing was super hard to make so I went the easy route and just bought this from Walmart for the little black minion decorations like the minion smile and hair. I added just a little of this icing to the white American buttercream to make the grey icing, so that was super easy too.

The minion sprinkles I got from Amazon and are actually like LA football sprinkles or something but they looked perfect for the minion cake! I felt like adding a little of those around the bottom really helped add some flare to the minion cake!

I used this Cake decorating kit from Amazon because it’s only like $7.99 and I’ve used it a million times already! I’m obsessed with all the different tips!

I also splurged and got this Cake turntable stand from Amazon because I’ve been wanting one forever! It currently is $4 off at the time of this posting. But I had gotten a cheap plastic one years ago and I hated it. It just didn’t work well. This beautiful baby is everything I wanted it to be! It turns so smoothly and is nice and tall! Not to mention the fact that it comes with those offset spatulas too which I love!

If you’re going to make a cake for an event, I highly recommend getting a cake board to put your cake on. It does stay on the cake turntable while decorating. I got these from Amazon. But then I also got a cake box from Walmart which made me feel fancy taking my minion cake to the party, but also made it super easy to transport the minion cake because it was nice and secure!

These are the Cake pans I used for my minion cake. I would still make sure you grease them up good so that your cake comes out without a problem. I also cut a circle of parchment paper for the bottom to ensure that my cake came out cuz I was stressed, girl!

Now, you don’t have to use a Stand mixer for your cake, but I highly recommend using a Kitchenaid for your Swiss meringue buttercream. It just makes it so much easier to achieve the results you need or desire. This one is from Amazon, but any stand mixer will do!

And that’s it, y’all! It took time to achieve and I did bake the chocolate cakes the day before so that they were cooled and chilled before decorating like a minion, but it is actually fairly easy to decorate for a novice. You can certainly get creative and look up minion pictures on google for the face you want. I quite liked the two goggle minion with the side smile but you live your life!

This was certainly a crowd pleaser cake and was almost gone immediately! I will for sure use these recipes again for any other cake! Let me see your minion cake pictures on my social media because I think they’re so fun! And I hear there’s a new minion movie coming out so it’s perfect timing!

Happy Minion Birthday Cake!

Ok love you bye

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