Gâteau Minion 3D
 
Prep time: 2h

Serves 10-12
Ingredients
  • 2 15cm cakes of your choice (one not flattened, we want to keep the bulge for the top of the head)
  • a buttercream of your choice or chocolate ganache
To decorate
  • 1.5kg yellow fondant
  • 500g Atlantic blue fondant
  • some brown, black, silver, white fondant
  • 1 15cm diameter polystyrene base to raise the height of the cake
  • 1 25cm diameter cake platter
  • one 5cm and one 6cm round cookie cutter
  • one 1.5cm round plunger cutter
  • edible glue
Instructions
Prepare the minion structure
  1. Attach the cake that was flattened on polystyrene base with a little icing. Place the cake with the bule on top of the first, spreading some icing in between. With a knife reshape the top of the cake to give the rounder shape of a Minion's head (that is to say a bit flat at the top and rounded on the sides).Ice the cakes with a thin layer of icing (do the same thing for the polystyrene base) and let it set for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Prepare the decorations for the Minion
  1. Roll out the silver fondant to 1cm thick and cut out the ring for the Minion glasses using a 6cm and a 5cm cutter. a punch and a 6cm 5cm. Make 6 small balls to make the bolts of the glasses, and stick them to the ring using a little edible glue.
  2. Make the eye. Model a 5cm dome in white fondant, then cover it with a white fondant disc. Add two strips of yellow fondant to create the eyelids. Resize the eye using a 6cm round cutter.
  3. Cut a 1.5cm disc in brown fondant, add a smaller black fondant disc in the middle, than an even smaller white fondant dot to create the pupil. Place the pupil in the middle of the white eye.
  4. Place the glasses ring on the eye and model 2 small rectangles on each side of the ring to complete the glasses.
  5. Cut out two buttons, the mittens and shoes of your Minion in black fondant. Cut out a semicircle in black fondant for the mouth and add 4 small white fondant semicircles for the teeth.
Assemble your Minion
  1. Once the icing is well-set, roll out the yellow fondant in a rectangle long enough to go around the cake and wide enough to cover it up to the line of the Minion's glasses. Cover the cake in fondant and cut the excess with a knife.
  2. Then spread out a circle in yellow fondant to cover the head of the Minion with it. Trim off the excess fondant at the junction with the rectangle and smooth. Cut a 2cm wide strip in black fondant and stick around the head of the Minion with edible glue, using it to cover the junction line of the yellow fondant. Then glue the eye in the middle.
  3. Attach the minion on one side of cake platter with a little icing, the eye of the Minion facing towards the of the plate so that you have space to give legs to your Minion. Cut a strip in blue fondant to form the bottom the dungarees, a trapeze to form the front, and the front pocket. Glue all these elements on the body of the Minion using the edible glue.
  4. Then form 2 yellow rolls for the arms and 2 small blue ones for the leg. Assemble all the elements of the body (arms, legs, mittens, shoes) with edible glue.
  5. Finish by cutting and adding to the the body the two blue straps of the dungarees, and the buttons. Create the seams of the dungarees by gently rolling a pizza or pastry wheel near the edges of the straps, the front par and the pocket of the garment. Finally add the mouth, and complete your Minion by 6 strands of hair on the top of his head.
Recipe by Anne-Sophie Vidal - Fashion Cooking at https://www.fashioncooking.fr/2016/05/minion-cake/