Crissa's Cake Corner!: Minion Cake & Dessert Table

"Ba-daaa!" It's a Minion-themed birthday to celebrate a l'il guy turning one year old. I got to make a 3D Minion Bob cake, and some minion coloured cake pops, Minion cookies, bite-sized cupcakes, macarons & jelly cups for the Minion dessert table.

blue and yellow minion cake pops

The previous Minion dessert table I did in collaboration with One and Only Gallery featured a minion face cake which was best appreciated when looking at the cake from the top. The birthday boy's mummy requested for a 3D Minion Bob cake so that it could be seen in the pics! So I put a slightly different spin on a minion cake that I did last year, and had Bob holding a balloon, hugging his fave teddy bear, and sitting on a round cake with standing lettering on the board.

crumb-coated carved minion cake

The cake was essentially a 3-tiered cake, with Bob, a red velvet cake with cream cheese filling, making up the first two tiers (I put a cake board separating every three cake layers) and the third tier being the large round devil's food cake with whipped dark chocolate ganache that he was sitting on. I made the round tier an inch bigger than discussed, just because.

bottom polka-dot tier

The bottom tier was covered in light blue fondant and decorated with white dots, with letters standing on the cake board. I used royal icing to stick the letters down onto the fondant-covered cake board.

standing fondant lettering

Bob was covered in fondant using the wrap and lid method, where the vertical section was one piece of fondant wrapped around the cake, and his scalp was another piece of fondant. I purposely made the edges of the two fondant pieces meet where the strap of Bob's goggles would be able to cover up the join-line.

goofy-looking Bob the Minion cake!

Bob's eyes and goggles were made in advance and allowed to fully dry so that they would hold their weight when placed onto the cake (using toothpicks for support). Bob's goggles look a wee bit small for his large head, making him look funny! And instead of making the usual G on the overalls, I put an M for the birthday boy's initial. I put teeny blue threads on the buttons on his overalls too. It's those little details that make the cake!

Tim, Minion Bob's teddy bear

Bob's teddy bear Tim, was also made in advance. I used grass tip no. 233 to make "fur" like markings all over his body. The balloon was just one big oval of orange gumpaste, with letters, supported on the cake with a long BBQ skewer.

Minion Bob birthday cake

The cake pops were vanilla and strawberry cakes, dipped in white chocolate (dyed yellow and blue for minion colours) and decorated with blue and yellow swirls and nonpareils. I use a squeeze bottle to get the swirls on the cake pops.

cake pops in minion colours

The minion cookies were decorated using fondant. It was pretty fun making all the different expressions, especially the ones with the toothy grins. I used a no. 10 round piping nozzle to cut the teeth out, and a heart plunger cutter for the tongue.

fun minion sugar cookies

The bite-sized cupcakes were chocolate and vanilla cupcakes, frosted with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream dyed yellow and blue and decorated with sprinkles. 49 pcs would've fit perfectly in a 10" box but I only had 48 pcs, so I used an inverted baking case to fill the space to prevent the cupcakes from sliding around in the box and toppling over during transport.

mini cupcakes

The macarons were filled with dark chocolate ganache and smoked salted caramel, with yellow shells on top for the minion bodies and blue shells on the bottom for their overalls.

minion colours, of course, for these macarons

minion-style macarons

The jelly cups are agar agar flavoured with pandan leaves, with a white coconut layer in between the blue and yellow layers.

Agar-agar jelly cups

cute paper toppers on the jelly cups

Here's the full Minion dessert table set up, styled by One and Only Gallery, featuring Bob the Minion cake and the desserts! I love the "minionized" Collon biscuit boxes and the extra large Minion standees. I made sure to remember to bring my son's minion night light and a bunch of minions toys from Happy Meals that I've collected over the years to add as props to the table! Oh and I added some baby banana bunches all over the table for extra minion-feel! Happy 1st Birthday, Matthew!