Minion Cake: Adorable Prisoner for your Despicable Me Party

Throw a Despicable Me party and transform a sheet cake into the star of the show: a darling Minion Prisoner Cake!

This post will guide you through creating this fun and easy cake, perfect for any Despicable Me 3 celebration.

Who doesn't love those adorable, mischievous Minions?

Whether you're planning a Despicable Me-themed party or just want to make someone laugh, this guide will help you create the perfect Minion prisoner cake. Get ready to unleash your inner evil genius (in the kitchen, that is)!

I wanted to keep this cake fairly simple so I baked a 9 x 13-inch sheet cake, carved out a Minion-shaped oval, and piped stars all over the surface. I love using that decorating technique because it's so easy and it makes a really great-looking cake.

It is much easier than spreading on frosting or decorating with fondant.

Video

Watch this video to see how to make a flat Minion Prisoner Cake using frosting, not fondant.
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Ingredients

• 9x13 inch baked sheet cake
• frosting: silver gray, black, white, and yellow

Supplies

• piping bags
• #22 star pastry tip
• #4 round pastry tip
• cake board (14-inch by 18-inch or larger)
• knife to carve the cake

Notes about the Minion Cake Recipe

• To make black frosting start with either store-bought or homemade chocolate frosting then add black icing coloring. That will make it much easier to get a nice deep black color.
• To get a nice silver color, mix a tiny bit of the black frosting with white frosting. You can add a bit of FDA-approved, edible silver luster dust, to give the frosting a bit of shimmer, if you'd like.
• Fit 4 pastry bags with #22 star tips and fill them with white, silver, black, and yellow frosting.
• Fit one pastry bag with a small #4 round tip and fill it with black frosting.

Baking the Perfect Minion-Shaped Cake

• Optional: Size and print out a picture of a Minion to use as a cake template.
  • You can decorate this easy Minion Cake freehand if you are able, but a template will be helpful if you aren't comfortable drawing the design onto the cake.
• Cut out the pieces of the template (cut out the goggles, stripes, etc.)
• Cut an oblong shape out of a 9x13-inch sheet cake.
  • Save all the cake scraps for later to make the Minion's prisoner hat, arms, and legs.
• Set those cut-out pieces on the 9 x 13-inch sheet cake and use a sharp knife to mark around the templates.
• Start by piping stars over the top of the cake to create Minon's goggles.
  • Pipe two silver circles.
  • Add black pupils in the center of the circles.
  • Pipe white frosting inside the silver circles.
  • Add a black band down the sides of the cake next to the goggles.
• Pipe yellow frosting above and below the goggles.

Creating the Prisoner Uniform Look

• Pipe on black and white stripes to form the two shoulder straps.
• Continue to pipe on black and white frosting stripes to create the Minion's prisoner uniform.
• Use the bag of black frosting that is fitted with the small round tip to pipe around the outline of the prisoner uniform.
• Then pipe on the outline of a pocket in the upper middle of the uniform.
• Fill that with white frosting.
• Pipe on a prisoner number over the white pocket.

How to make the Minion's Prisoner Hat out of Cake

• Use the scrap pieces of cake to create the pill box style prisoner hat.
  • Cut a four corners of the cake and frost them together into a rectangle.
  • Cut out the hat shape using the template if necessary.
• Attach the hat to the Minion cake using frosting.
• Pipe on black and white stripes of frosting.
• Pipe on a smile.

Bringing Your Minion to Life

• Crumble all the remaining cake into a bowl.
• Add frosting and stir and knead until it comes together in a ball.
• Divide the cake ball dough into four sections.
• Roll one piece into a tube and attach it to one side of the cake just below the shoulder straps.
  • Pipe yellow frosting over the cake ball tube to form the Minion's arm.
  • Pipe on a black glove at the end of the arm.
  • Repeat on the opposite side of the Minion cake.
• Cut the remaining 2 pieces of cake ball into two pieces and use them to create legs and feet for the Minion.
  • Frost the leg pieces with white frosting.
  • Frost the feet using black frosting.

Congratulations! You're now ready to create your very own Minion prisoner cake that's sure to be the talk of any party. Remember, the key to a great Minion cake is attention to detail and a good sense of humor.

Don't be afraid to get creative and add your own personal touches – after all, every Minion is unique! Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, this project is bound to bring smiles (and maybe even some evil chuckles) to everyone who sees it.

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Grab your apron, channel your inner Gru, and let's get baking!

Recipe

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Minion Cake - Despicable Me 3 Prisoner

Prep Time

1 hr

Total Time

1 hr

 

Turn a 9x13 inch sheet cake into the most adorable Minion Prisoner Cake.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Cake

Keyword: decorated cake, dispicable me, minion cake

Servings: 18 people

Author: Beth Klosterboer

Ingredients

• 9x13 inch baked sheet cake
• ⅓ cup silver gray frosting
• 2 ½ cups black frosting
• 2 ½ cups white frosting
• 2 ½ cups yellow frosting

Instructions

1. Carve a Minion shaped oval out of the cake.
2. Reserve all the cake scraps for later.
3. Spoon all the frosting colors into individual pastry bags, each fitted with a star tip, reserving about ½ cup of the black.
4. Place the reserved black frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a #4 round tip.
5. Decorate the cake by piping stars all over the surface and sides.
6. Start by making two silver gray circles for the Minion's goggles.
7. Pipe a small black circle in the middle of those circles then fill in around the black circle using white frosting.
8. Pipe a black band on either side of the goggles.
9. Pipe yellow above and just below the goggles.
10. Pipe on the black and white striped prisoner uniform.
11. Pipe a line around the straps to the uniform and pipe on the outline of a pocket in the middle of the uniform.
12. Pipe white stars inside the pocket border then pipe on a prisoner number over the white stars using black frosting.
13. Pipe on a black smile.
14. Glue together the cake scraps using frosting and cut a rectangle prisoner hat out of the scraps.
15. Attach the hat to the top of the Minion and pipe on black and white stripes.
16. Crumble all the remaining cake scraps and blend together with a tablespoon or two of frosting.
17. Use this cake ball mixture to shape two arms, two legs, and two shoes for the Minion.
18. Pipe yellow frosting over the arm then pipe on black gloves.
19. Pipe white frosting over the legs then black over the shoes.

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Beth Klosterboer

Hi, I'm Beth Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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