Despicable Me 2 is coming out soon (July 3, that is) and I made these mini Minions for the movie release. I was super excited to be asked to make them because I know a bunch of you have wanted decorating ideas on these in the past.
So here goes. I hope you like them.
Crumbled cake. Frosting. Mixing. And shaping. You guys know the drill.
But if you don’t, I have a link at the bottom of the post for the full instructions on how to make them.
But pictures are way better, right.
Okay, here’s a little tip I want to share on shaping. I think it really helps to get smoother edges. After you roll your mixture into evenly sized cake balls, you can use wax paper to help shape. I do this all the time for shapes that need sharper edges like boxes and such. You can simply slide the shape along a wax-paper covered surface and rotate.
And in the case of cylinders like these, start the shape of your cake ball cylinders by hand and then roll them up in a strip of wax paper. Twist the ends and then squeeze together while rolling on a flat surface to get smooth sides. It really works great.
After your cake balls are shaped and chilled until firm, it’s time to dip……
And decorate! The fun part.
Hi Carl, Tom and Tim!
I found these candy eyes in two sizes and they made making the minions a blast. I found them at Hobby Lobby if you have one in your area, but you can also use white M&M’s, candy necklace pieces or even piped white coating for a similar look.
My first plan was to use the eyes like you see them, but I ended up turning them over instead. For two reasons… one, the Minions’ eyes are brown with black pupils so I could use the solid white side to draw on them. And two, if you turn the smaller eyes over, the backs are flat instead of curved and it looked more like their goggles were really raised off of their faces that way.
I know. Overkill and you can totally use the black sides and they will still look cute. But I wanted to try and make them look as close to the original as I could. Because I’m crazy.
To decorate…
- Dip in yellow coating and before the coating dries, attach a candy eye on front and insert some black or chocolate jimmies on the top for hair.
- For the goggles, you can use licorice strings to make the bands. Just cut to the length you need and attach to the pop with candy coating and let dry. Or pipe bands with black tinted candy coating.
- When dry, you can paint the rims on the goggles using silver luster dust and a small brush.
- For the overalls, gently twist the Minions off the stick so you can take them for another little dip. Submerge the bottom fourth of the minion body into blue candy coating and let dry.
- To finish the overalls, pipe the bibs on front using a toothpick or squeeze bottle and more blue candy coating. Use a toothpick to quickly smooth the surface before it dries. Then pipe the straps starting at the top of the overall bib.
Super cute.
- To finish decorating, draw eyes and a mouth with a brown edible ink pen. Then, complete the eyes with a black pen and dot the pupils with white candy coating. (Here’s another tip when it comes to drawing on candy coating with an edible ink pen. You can use a toothpick to gently scrape it off the surface of the pop. Doing so can help you create straighter lines if you mess up while drawing. You can also use a toothpick to shave away candy coating and make smoother edges or straighter lines. Just don’t press too hard.)
- You can totally stop there and they will be awesome, but if you are compulsive and crazy like me, you can add more detail to your Minions.
- Use a toothpick to apply yellow coating in a line on the side of each pop for arms and add a black confetti sprinkle attached at the end for gloves.
- Apply two dots of blue coating on the bottom of each minion body and attach two coated black sunflower seeds for shoes.
- Draw on two black dots for overall buttons with your edible ink pen and attach a black confetti sprinkle on the overall fronts. Use a toothpick dipped lightly in blue coating and draw a G on each confetti sprinkle for their patch. Again. They’ll be just as sweet arm and legless and you won’t be hairless by the time you finish. : )
Minions! Yay!
But I also made something more from the movie.
I started with these shapes.
Circles. Easy enough.
And really rounded cones. You can use the wax paper trick for those.
The balls became little Agnes.
So adorable. And these are neat because I only used one candy to decorate. The rest was all melted candy coating. So you can do a lot with a little.
- To create Agnes, make a small indention in the front of each ball. It’s all about details. The impression will help them look more like faces instead of round balls. Dip them in candy coating tinted using white and pink or peach to create a flesh color.
- For her ponytail, I used licorice strings again, cut into short pieces. To make it easier to attach, I made the ponytails first by dotting some black candy coating on wax paper and attaching the licorice. This made the ponytail one unit and it was much easier than trying to attach the pieces on the top of the rounded pop.
- When the ponytails are ready, dip the top of each Agnes’ head in black candy coating and attach her ponytail right on top before the coating dries.
- For her sweet little face, draw eyes and mouth with a brown edible ink pen. Draw on eyebrows and dot on eyes and eyelashes with black candy coating and a toothpick.
- Add bangs using a toothpick dipped in black candy coating to draw on hair. This will tie in the look to the licorice pieces, too.
- Then dot on noses and ears with more flesh tinted candy coating and make her hair band by drawing on red candy coating.
- Give her sweet little cheeks by brushing on dry pink luster dust.
Now Agnes wouldn’t be complete without her favorite stuffed animal.
Want to see?
It’s so fluffy!!!!! Or yummy in this case.
For the unicorn, I used candy corn… sixlets for eyes and hair, sunflower seeds for ears and confetti sprinkles for tongues.
Let me show you.
For the unicorn horn, I had some pastel colored candy corn and cut them in half. Then I painted the bottoms with gold luster dust. Painting the bottoms first is helpful so you don’t get luster dust on the head if you paint them after they are dipped. And you can use other candy corn colors, too since you are painting over them.
The ears were sunflower seeds attached to the cake ball shape, so when they were dipped it created one overall shape.
After dipping, immediately attach the horn, eyes and insert the tongue.
When dry, attach sixlets to the back for hair using melted dark pink candy coating. The sixlets work great and give the hair substance.
Then you can finish painting the horns with luster dust.
To make them look more like a main, use the pink candy coating (Merckens brand) and draw on the surface of the candies. Drag the toothpick through to simulate hair.
Voila. Unicorns with big voluminous manes.
Want to see one more.
Did you know there are new minions in this movie. Evil ones. Eeek.
I only made one of these but, it’s basically the same idea as the yellow minions, but with different colors, gnarly teeth and crazy hair.
Despicable Me 2 Cake Pop Instructions
Enjoy! And I can’t wait to see these guys on the big screen.
Hey, who did that?!?
Disclosure: I was compensated to make Despicable Me Cake Pops for the upcoming movie release. I love these little guys though and I only make things on the site that I think you’ll enjoy, too. I hope they make you smile.
You are very talented! This I wanted to say 1st. Thank you so much for your tutorial on these guys, I’ve been doing cake pops and figures for about 10 years, yours are by far most excellent.
Thank you again
Lisa m
Just love your cakepops
Wow.. just wow. :) you’re amazing! Thank you for sharing :) that’s what I call gifted!..
These look awesome and I’m wanting to try them for my little boy’s birthday. How far in advance can I make them and they still look and taste good at the party?
hello you have the recipe for yellow cover grazie
These are so amazing, am attempting minion cake pops for my nephew’s birthday and was wondering if these can be kept in the fridge (fully decorated) and if so for how long? Thanks!
Holy cow! These look amazing! So much detail!
I was looking for the link on how to make the minions. I have never crumbled the cake and added frosting to shape anything. I get it for the most part. I would like to know how much cake to frosting.
Thank you these look great
Fun party
Very nice Job ! and (looks) so easy to make and eat ;)
I made a link of your article to my blog related to the minions word (www.planetminion.com), I hope you are ok with that
Cheers
Hola
Me pasas la receta del baño amarillo?
Gracias
You Are awesome!
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lovely creativity …. just amazing ….
Love them, great for a baby shower
Hi, do you make cake pops to order, I need 30 for a party thanks.
that is simply AWESOME!!!!
OMG, I come to this page everyday, many times a day. I love your perfection. You are very accurate about the small small details & everything. Thanks for sharing.
I was sick to my stomach. I followed every instruction to the letter and my yellow dip was so thick and I kept adding oil to thin it accordingly and it was still like peanut butter . My sons birthday was a disaster . What went wrong ?????
These look soooo amazing and realistic!!! I would love to know how you created the teeth for the evil minion?
I <3 the little Unicorn
I would like to know your pruces fie the duspicable me cakepops i would need 48
Me lo podrian enviar en castellano esta receta
These are almost impossible!!!! How do you get them to look good? I’ve spent hours on them and they look aweful! Suggestions?
Mre please can jou sent me the recipe that looks beutiful
Boa noite
Muito lindo tudo o que foi feito, mais não leio Inglês, e gostaria muito de fazer a festa dos meus filhos Gabriel e Arthur dos minions , e lógico eu fazendo tudo… adoro….
Can u tell me how would I do the silver for the minion glasses
How long can i refrigerate the minions before i dress them and decorate?
I am dying of all this serious cuteness around here girl!
how cute
These are amazing! Absolutely perfect!
Thank you very much for the tutorial, I needed to make some of these and you had the hints and product list that I was looking for.
Really appreciate the help :)
Can these be made ahead of time and frozen?
I wanted to know what you used for the minion teeth?? You didn’t mention it in the instructions and I would love to try to create the goofy look! Great job!
I like the minyons
Could you share detailed instructions for a not so crafty mother?
Hi Bakerella
I love these cake pops, but I have a question for you. I use Merckens candy coating from my local Bulk Barn (In Canada) byt I always get these little, I don’t know, beads I guess, of candy coating. I don’t understand! and sometimes right after I dip them, I get wrinkles. please help me! oh, and could you please read my comment on your Boo and Grumpy Cat post.
Thanks!!
Emma
P.S Despicable Me is the best movie ever!
congratulations, best minion cake pops i’ve ever seen
Such a wonderful creation! I tried to make this.. For some reason my liquorice strands are not sticking to the cake (even though I used candy melts to stick it) and it keeps bouncing off and destroying the whole thing.. It’s making me frustrated! Haha. Are there any steps that I did wrong or do you have any tips regarding getting the liquorice to “behave”? Hope to hear from you. Thanks!
they r amazing!!! congratulations
You are incredible! I am making these next week and this is the perfect tutorial (as with all your tutorials). Thank you for all your creativity and inspiration in the cake pop world.
hi i want to know what did you use to decorate? is that fondant? if im not mistaken it was called like that…did you made it?? how pls share…tnx…its clay like…thanks!!!
This cakepops are cool
Hello! What substances are in the dough? .
What’s that yellow substance is a dip made ??of?
omg!?! könnt ich nicht besa machen…
Can I pay for these yo be made for my 4 yr olds bday?
These are SUPER cute!!! I love all of the cake pops you made!!
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look at my master!
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I love them! They are ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re so cute! I’ll try to make them if i have time :D
omg omg omg god bless u for the amazing work i cant beleive it till now
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Do you take orders
Can’t wait to use your tutorial for an order this week! Awesome work! One question though – in the step where you dip the bottom of the minion in blue, where’s the stick? Didn’t we put it on the stick earlier? I’d be afraid to put it on after much decorating for fear of dislodging the cooled chocolate. What am I missing, LOL? :)
how do you make a mioion on a pumpkin
pumpkihow do you make a mioin
can you guys help me with a idea to make a mioin on my pumpkin
can you guys give me a idea so i can make a mioin on my pumpkin
i wish i get the same results …. good job
way to cute to be eaten. by the way can you bring some over to my house!
they are cute as all get out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can you bring some over to my house!!!!!!!!!!