Take a look at these cool homemade Despicable Me cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I decided to attempt to make this Minion cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday, she wasn’t so confident in me but I proved myself, and this cake turned out great! I used a giant cupcake silicone cake mold to make the minion, and just made the lower half smaller than what it would normally be, … Read more
I made this Minion birthday cake for my daughter’s 8th birthday. It was simple and very cute. I made it using a rectangle pyrex glass plate. I cut the edges to make them a little round then I used food coloring for the frosting. For the eyes I used round cookies. I actually frosted them and … Read more
Hi my name is Gloria Pacheco and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada where heat temperatures rise up to 118!! Well, let me begin by telling you that my son’s birthday party was going to take place at the park at the end of August!! It’s hot, hot, hot! My son had wanted an Evil … Read more
My friend’s little girl is Minion mad – so desperately wanted a Despicable Me 2 cake for her Minion Party. I made two big chocolate cakes, sandwiched them together with butter cream then set to work decorating them. This began with covering the cake with blue icing, which I then sprayed with edible spray color … Read more
This is my story, I have been baking the cakes and my husband has been decorating the cakes using fondant and he also makes fondant cake toppers. All of the cakes he has decorated have been for family, the funny thing about this is that my husband decided not to decorate any more cakes because … Read more
This Purple Evil Minion cake was such fun to make, even though at times I thought this is going to look nothing like the image I have in my mind. But little Brandon kept coming into the kitchen telling me “that is going to look good mum ” and it gave me the courage to push … Read more
This was a very fun cake to make. I have not worked with fondant that much when a friend asked me to make her twin sons a Minion birthday cake. I thought ummmm, ok. I have seen a few online and thought well I could do this. I did one in white cake with strawberry … Read more
I used two 6″ cakes and 1 half of a ball pan to create this minion. The ball cake shape is on the top and then the other two underneath them with a thin layer of icing in between the layers to “glue” the layers together. Cover the form with yellow fondant and then make … Read more
This is Minion birthday cake from the movie Despicable Me. I made it for a birthday of a 4 year old boy. I used a regular cake, with fondant on it. Food coloring in colors: yellow,blue, black, white and brown. It was fun to do this, I also added a Minion doll from McDonald’s .
My 10 year old nephew loves Despicable Me and the Minions. His request for cake was a Minion! I used 4 – 8 inch round cakes, stacked, and one domed cake (made in Pyrex bowl) to make the Minion. I stacked them together and filled in the colors using an image from the movie. The hair, arms, … Read more
These are my little minions! Each one is made of two 6” rounds covered in yellow fondant and decorated with gum paste details. The goggles I made the night before. They are strips of fondant that were wrapped around household items that were roughly the same size and then the next day I airbrushed them. … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday gathering I made a Despicable Me Minion Birthday Cake. He is entirely cake, buttercream and fondant. I had to cover his dome cake head with fondant and add it to his body which was already covered with fondant. Then I placed the black strip for his glasses to cover the … Read more