Despicable Me Minion Sheet Cake

Name: Despicable Me Minion Sheet Cake
Prep time: 3 h 50 min
Cook time: 3 h 50 min
Total time: 3 h 50 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 milk chocolate candy drops or pieces, unwrapped; 1 teaspoon corn syrup; 12 servings Golden yellow food color; 120 grams tube Betty Crocker® blue decorating icing; 181 grams Betty Crocker® Easy Flow black decorating icing (from can); 5 (1 inch in diameter) chewy chocolate candies, unwrapped; 40 grams chocolate-covered peppermint patty , unwrapped; 84 inches pieces each) black string licorice; 28 grams silver decorating sugar; 1 container Betty Crocker® Whipped whipped cream frosting

Despicable Me Minion Sheet Cake requires around 3 hours and 50 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 12 servings with 139 calories, 0g of protein, and 5g of fat each. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have easy flow decorating icing, whipped whipped cream frosting, string licorice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper or waxed paper. Spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with baking spray with flour.

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Baking Spray

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Frying Pan

Make and bake cake mix as directed on box, using water, butter and eggs. Cool 10 minutes in pan on cooling rack. Turn cake out onto paper-lined cookie sheet. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

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Cake Mix

Butter

Water

Egg

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Baking Sheet

Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

With serrated knife, trim off square corners of cake, creating oblong shape. Trim 1 short side flat to make bottom of cake.

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Serrated Knife

Spoon three-fourths of the container of frosting into medium bowl. Stir in yellow food color. Frost cake with thin coat of yellow frosting. Refrigerate 30 minutes.

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Yellow Food Color

Frosting

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Bowl

Remove cake from refrigerator. Frost cake with final coating of yellow frosting. Refrigerate until frosting is firm, about 15 minutes.

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Frosting

Use off-set spatula to make an upward curving line in frosting about 4 inches from bottom of cake.

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Frosting

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Spatula

Place blue decorating icing in small bowl; stir until smooth. Frost bottom (including bottom edges) of cake with blue icing up to curved line. Use 1 licorice string to cover line; if needed, use kitchen scissors to snip away excess licorice. Refrigerate cake 30 to 45 minutes.

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Licorice

Icing

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Kitchen Scissors

Bowl

For eye, frost mint patty with thick layer of remaining white frosting.

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Frosting

Mint

Place 1 of the chocolate candy drops, pointed end down, into frosting; set patty aside.

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Chocolate Candies

Frosting

Knead together chewy chocolate candies. When completely combined and malleable, roll candy between palms into a rope. Press rope around plastic tumbler with 3 1/4- to 3 1/2-inch diameter rim; press loose ends together to secure. Gently lift tumbler away from candy. With pastry brush, coat chocolate candy ring with a little corn syrup (you may not need all of the corn syrup).

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Candy

Corn Syrup

Roll

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Pastry Brush

Place silver sugar in shallow dish; dip chocolate ring into sugar to coat.

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Chocolate

Sugar

Dip

Remove cake from refrigerator. Gently peel cake away from paper; place cake on cake board or serving platter.

Place eye towards top center of cake.

Place silver ring around eye.

Press 2 chocolate drops into blue portion of cake just under licorice string to create buttons on jumper. Arrange 4-inch piece of licorice onto cake a few inches below eye in a half-curve to create smile.

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Chocolate

Licorice

Cut 2 licorice strings into 3-inch pieces; insert into top of cake to create hair. Use more licorice strings to outline jumper.

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Licorice

Attach plain tip (provided) to Easy Flow icing nozzle. Draw 2 lines of icing about 2 inches apart on either side of silver eye ring. Fill in lines with more black icing; smooth icing with small knife or spatula. Store cake loosely covered.

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Icing

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Spatula

Knife