Minions are such cute creatures, especially in cake form. This is Bob with his trusty teddy bear Tim. The requestor of this cake was specific in that she wanted "Bob", which meant the minion had to have one green eye and one brown eye and NO hair. The top of the cake looked a little plain with no hair, so I added Tim the Teddy Bear at the last minute. I also wanted to add the pet rat, Poochy, but that little guy is just plain ugly.
I started the cake by making the goggles. The cake itself is 9" round and about 6" tall, so I sized the goggle to 6" wide to fit the dimensions of the cake. I made a cutter using my 3D printer, but you could just cut it out by hand. If you want to read more about using 3D printers to make cookie cutters, click HERE.
I just cut the silver things on the side of the goggles by hand, and I used tiny circle cutters to cut out the circles that edged the goggles. I draped the goggles on a 9" cake dummy so the goggles would dry with a curved shape.
I used silver shimmer fondant to make the goggles, but I didn't think they looked metallic enough so I dusted them with some silver luster dust. The luster dust really made them sparkle. After I dusted the goggles with the silver dust, I added white circles of fondant to make the eyes, then I added the iris in green and brown, the black circle for the pupil, and finally a tiny white dot to add interest to the eye. Note: I added the eye section after dusting the goggles because I didn't want any of that fine-grained dust to float onto the whites of the eyes.
After the goggles were made, I started working on the cake. The buttercream is colored with Wilton's Golden Yellow gel, and the strip around the bottom was made with Wilton's Blue fondant. I used the JEM Strip Cutter No. 3 to cut out the blue strips.
