Sweet little minions are perfect for a minion themed party!
The eyes and the ruffled hair need to be prepared a day in advance. The hair is made from modelling chocolate by shaping the chocolate into a tear drop shape and cutting the tip into 3 to 4 strands using small scissors.
Eyes are made out of fondant. Roll out the white fondant and cut out small circles with cutters.
Then use a smaller cutter to make a circle print into the fondant so that it looks like the eyes have goggles.
Paint the rim with silver food colour and finish by drawing a brown pupil.
I made the eyes in two sizes; bigger ones for minions with one eye and smaller ones for minions with two eyes. I needed 15 large eyes and 30 small eyes to make 30 minions altogether.
The next day, it is time to start to make the actual minions. The cake pops mix is almost always may way of using the leftover of previous cakes, that have been frozen and defrosted when needed. This time I had some Liz's chocolate cake laying in the fridge, which I combined with melted dark chocolate and mascarpone. The pops were larger than usual, approx. 30 g each. Instead of shaping them into balls, I shaped them to be a bit longer, like cylinders and let them cool in the fridge. As per usual I then dipped the cake pop stick into melted chocolate and stuck the minion on top and let it set. Minions were then dipped into melted white chocolate which was gently dyed yellow. Actually I could have dyed it a little more yellow, but I always have this fear of white chocolate seizing on me.
The next day, it is time to start to make the actual minions. The cake pops mix is almost always may way of using the leftover of previous cakes, that have been frozen and defrosted when needed. This time I had some Liz's chocolate cake laying in the fridge, which I combined with melted dark chocolate and mascarpone. The pops were larger than usual, approx. 30 g each. Instead of shaping them into balls, I shaped them to be a bit longer, like cylinders and let them cool in the fridge. As per usual I then dipped the cake pop stick into melted chocolate and stuck the minion on top and let it set. Minions were then dipped into melted white chocolate which was gently dyed yellow. Actually I could have dyed it a little more yellow, but I always have this fear of white chocolate seizing on me.
It is best to draw the mouth with a toothpick, but only after the chocolate has partially set and before it has set fully, so you gotta pick your timing. To soon and the chocolate will be too runny to draw, too late and the chocolate will be too hard.
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