There is no need to ask Sarah what kind of cake she wants -- it is always going to be devil's food cake with buttercream frosting! The question is -- what kind of design does she want? This year she wanted something called Dave, the Minion cake. I had never heard of or seen the movie and so I had to google Dave the Minion, and after studying a few birthday creations, I came up with my own.
First there was the devil's food cake to be made. I have a tried and tested recipe that I have been using for a number of years.
Deeply Dark Devil's Food Cake
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
2/3 cups Dutch-processed cocoa powder
11 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/3 warm water or milk
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour a 11 x 7 x 1.5 - inch rectangular glass pan and set aside.
2. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder. Set aside.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter at medium speed until creamy, about 1 minute. Gradually add the sugar and beat at high speed until light and fluffy.
4. Beat in the eggs, one at a time until well mixed. Add vanilla extract and beat well.
5. At low speed add the flour mixture in three additions and alternate with warm water or milk in two additions.
6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake the cake for 45 to 55 minutes until a cake tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. If making cupcakes, bake for 18 - 20 minutes. This batter will make 24 cupcakes.
To make Dave the Minion Cake
Work on the cake when it is completely cool
Round off the edges of the cake
Cover 3/4 of the cake with yellow colored buttercream frosting, shaping
the bottom to leave space for the top of a bib overalls
Using blue buttercream frosting fill in the bib overall and pipe two straps. Use brown M&Ms
for the buttons. Take apart two double stuffed Oreo cookies, place a brown M&M
on each cookie, use the silver rings from two Mason canning jars for Dave's glasses -- position the glasses before placing the cookie eyes in. Using black icing pipe Dave's mouth, his hair and the side of his eye glasses
Dave's stringy hair
The happy birthday girl
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