Today I got call from my bestie asking me whether I can make a birthday cake for a lady that works next to her office. Well~ I’m super happy that people actually thinks cake looks nice and even willing to pay for it. But I turned it down because that cake I made is for my bestie and only for her. It’s fondant 3D cake featuring the Despicable Me minion.

It is my first attempt at making a fondant cake, not to mention that it’s also a 3D cake. I have to say I must had a lot of beginner’s luck. I did do a lot of research on how to make a fondant cake, and start to gather the things I need for it. I finally adopted the instructions from a YouTube blog” how to cook that”,  changed the cake, the butter cream and the size. I thought the most difficult would be the big piece of fondant that covers the minion body, but it is actually those little pieces that took me the longest time and a lot of details such as the goggle’s, the eyes and logo etc. I actually made the goggle twice because the first time I tried to use the silver edible liquid to color it, but it didn’t turn out the way I wanted. It was silver, did look like metal, but it was lumpy, like a piece of raw metal. So I changed to powder, which looks very smooth and nice. But powder does make the fondant dry quite fast, and have to be careful when assembling them as its quite easy to crack.
I made the raspberry butter cream, which is her favorite flavor and happens to make it look like actual flesh when cut it out. And you do need more cake than u think for 3D cake. My cake is quite small one, I used 4x 5inch cakes. The foundation and support is also very important as it does make the whole cake quite heavy, and if you are going to transport it, you don’t want it to fall before on the way. So definitely need few sticks and paper board to support.

I didn’t take photo’s for the each of the steps, but if you interested to try, you can just search how to cook that minion cake, and you will find the video for instruction. 🙂