Many children are crazy about the cartoon character minion. Therefore, preparing a dessert in the form of it is a great way to please and surprise a little sweet tooth. Mignon cake is prepared on a biscuit basis and is complemented by cream and decorative elements.

Mignon cake from mastic

Ingredients Composition:

  • 270 g of flour;
  • 1 cup of milk;
  • 6 eggs;
  • 330 g of sugar;
  • 60 g of cocoa;
  • food colorings;
  • ½ pack of butter (plus 100 g for cream);
  • 10 g of baking powder;
  • 100 ml of impregnation (from water, sugar and cocoa in a ratio of 1: 1: 5);
  • 1 can of boiled condensed milk;
  • 1.5 cups of fat cream;
  • 600 g of mastic;
  • 2 tbsp. l powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar until white. Add flour thoroughly crushed through a sieve with baking powder and cocoa.
  2. Boil butter and milk and combine in several stages with the main batch.
  3. Cover the rectangular shape with parchment and pour out the base of the cake. Bake at 180 degrees until dry with a toothpick.
  4. Cut the cooled biscuit into 3 cakes and give them the shape of a minion.
  5. For cream, whip the cream and combine with condensed milk. The composition of the dense structure should be obtained.
  6. Soak each cake with chocolate syrup and grease with cream. Then collect them in a pile.
  7. Separately, beat 100 g of butter with powder for 6 minutes and level the cake structure obtained with the oil base.
  8. Mastic divided into several parts. To paint the largest of them with yellow dye, a little less will need blue. You will also need a little white, black and pink plastic mass.
  9. From the yellow mastic form the basis of the cake, with the help of the blue the pants of the hero are formed. White and black fragments are needed to create the eyes, pink - for the mouth.After completing all the design of the cake, the mastic mignon is ready.

Children's dessert with gingerbread cookies

Ingredients Composition:

  • 500 g of ready-made ginger cookies (you can cook yourself);
  • mastic;
  • food colorings;
  • black pastry marker.

Cooking method:

  1. Form the basis of the gingerbread dessert.
  2. Find and print character templates.
  3. Divide the mastic into pieces, leaving 2 pieces large. Add a yellow dye to one, and paint the second blue. You will also need a white and black composition.
  4. From colored pieces to form all parts of the face and connect them on the finished product.
  5. Draw minion hair with a food marker.

The recipe is good because it allows you to create minions of different types. If desired, small gingerbread characters can decorate festive children's cakes.

How to make with an edible picture

Any homemade cake can be decorated with food photo printing. The basis is sugar or wafer paper, on which edible paints are applied. You can order a similar decor in pastry shops or through the Network.

Ingredients Composition:

  • any ready-made homemade cake covered with white mastic;
  • a sheet of wafer or sugar paper with a printed pattern of minions;
  • decorative food gel.

If desired, a cake without mastic is suitable as a basis. However, its surface must be even and smooth, otherwise defects will appear in the figure.

Cooking method:

  1. Make a cake yourself or buy a finished product. If it does not correspond to the A4 format, then the printed drawing must be cut into the necessary fragments. This is convenient to do with a stationery knife.
  2. Cover the bottom of the paper with gel and fix in the right place on the cake. If the basis of the picture is wafer, then it is smeared on both sides.
  3. Smooth the picture with your hands or with a special iron.

Cream cake "Mignon"

In the absence of a desire to resort to the use of mastic, you can prepare a cream minion cake.

Ingredients Composition:

  • 3 biscuit cakes;
  • 600 ml custard (can be replaced with cream) for a layer of cakes;
  • 600 ml of butter cream for decoration (400 g of butter + 2 cups of powdered sugar + ½ cup of milk);
  • 20 g of mastic;
  • food colorings.

Cooking method:

  1. Give sponge cakes an oval shape. From the scraps and cream, form the legs of the minion.
  2. Fold the cakes in a pile, not forgetting to generously smear each with custard. Put the resulting biscuit "legs" to the bottom of the product. Lubricate the workpiece on all sides with the rest of the cream.
  3. Cook the butter cream. To do this, beat with a mixer softened butter fat 82.5%. Gradually supplement it with powder and milk.
  4. Divide the oil cream into parts and add to each dye the desired color (yellow, blue and black).
  5. Using a toothpick, carefully draw a contour drawing on the cake.
    6. Put a blue cream in the pastry syringe and draw the pants to the minion. Then make the main background of the cake yellow.
  6. To form eyes from mastic.
  7. With black oil cream draw glasses and then hair.

Chocolate Dough

Ingredients Composition:

  • 600 g of chocolate biscuit (you can use ready-made or make it yourself);
  • fruits for filling (4 kiwi and 3 bananas);
  • 250 g of chocolate fudge (bar of chocolate and 50 g of butter);
  • 2 cans of boiled condensed milk and 150 g of butter for cream;
  • 100 g marshmallows;
  • 1 tbsp. l lemon juice;
  • 400 g of powdered sugar;
  • 30 g butter;
  • for a couple of tsp turmeric and cocoa.

The recipe is good in that it completely eliminates the presence of artificial dyes in baking. Cocoa and turmeric will add color to the product.

Cooking method:

  1. Bake a biscuit and make 4 rectangular cakes out of it.
  2. Beat condensed milk with butter and coat with cream obtained cakes.
  3. Lay kiwi slices on top of the first oiled cake.
  4. Cover the second greased cake with circles of bananas.
  5. Alternate the fruit layer on 3 and 4 cakes. Make a cake.
  6. Round the corners of the product and cover it with chocolate fudge.
  7. Prepare the mastic in the standard way, divide it into 2 parts. The first is tinted with cocoa, the second with turmeric. Leave a little colorless mastic to form the eyes.
  8. Roll out layers of it and cover them with a cake. Cut off the excess part and hide the edges under the product. Before planting the mastic on the finished dessert, it should be moistened with water. This will improve grip.
  9. From the remnants of brown and white mastic make minion eyes. In addition, you can form a pocket from brown mastic and use a spoon to make an imitation of the seams on the pants.

Children's cake in the form of a minion

Ingredients Composition:

  • 100 g of flour;
  • 4 eggs (plus an additional 3 yolks for cream);
  • food colorings;
  • 100 g of dark chocolate;
  • 3 pcs. Truffle candies;
  • 220 g butter;
  • 300 g of sugar (150 - in the dough and 150 - in the cream);
  • 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
  • 6 tbsp. l water;
  • 1 PC. chocolate chip cookies;
  • Iris sweets and coconut flavors to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. To make a cake in the form of a minion, you need to make a biscuit base. To do this, individually whisk the whites and yolks with sugar. Mix the egg mixture with the sifted flour and bake a biscuit.
  2. Dissolve sugar in water. Beat 3 yolks separately and gradually pour the syrup into them. At the same time, beat soft butter and combine it with eggs.
  3. Pour part of the cream into a separate dish and tint with yellow. Make them the body of the minion and send him in the cold for half an hour. If necessary, duplicate the coating.
  4. Make a jumpsuit from a cream painted in blue. The junction of yellow and blue colors is surrounded by melted chocolate with a syringe.
  5. Cover the chocolate cookies with white cream, use the Truffle candy as the pupil. Set the eye on the space reserved for him.
  6. Make a frame of glasses from toffee. Dip it in syrup, roll in coconut flakes and place around the eye.
  7. Add chocolate to the mouth and eyeglass strap. From the remaining sweets, make an imitation of fasteners on overalls.

How to make do-it-yourself figures from mastic

It is not necessary to design the cake completely in the form of a minion. You can show a little more imagination and make a whole installation of a scene from your favorite cartoon on the baking surface.

Its basis will be figures from mastic, which are easy to make with your own hands. And it can be not only minions, but also their favorite delicacy - bananas and other decorative elements.

Ingredients Composition:

  • mastic;
  • food colorings.

The number of components depends on the scale of the planned decor.

Cooking method:

  1. Form ellipsoids from yellow mastic.
  2. Cut the outlines of the mouth with a knife and remove excess base.
  3. Mastic pink and white to arrange the mouth.
  4. From black and white mastic cut eyes, pupils and eyelids.
  5. From blue mastic, decorate the jumpsuit and decorate it with pockets and straps.
  6. From the black base make the frame of the glasses and the hair of the character.
  7. Blind hands and feet separately and fasten them already on the finished product. The minion figurine is ready.

Making a cake for a children's holiday in the form of a minion is an interesting idea that the little hero of the occasion will definitely appreciate. Unlike other Disney characters, the performance of this one-eyed jovial does not require special artistic skills, and therefore even culinary specialists who cannot boast of the ability to beautifully sculpt or draw will be able to.

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